General Practitioners: West Midlands

(asked on 16th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for a GP appointment was in (a) Warley constituency and (b) Sandwell Borough in each year between May 2010 and November 2017.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 23rd November 2017

The average waiting time for a general practitioner (GP) appointment is not collected or held centrally. In the 2017 GP patient survey, 70.8% of respondents stated they “saw or spoke to someone at a time they wanted to or sooner”. The Government is committed to delivering routine weekend or evening appointments at either their own GP surgery or one nearby to all registered patients by March 2019.

86 of the 88 practices in Sandwell and West Midlands Clinical Commissioning Group are participating in the Primary Care Commissioning Framework (PCCF) which is committed to the development of “primary care at scale”. In addition to all practices being open during normal opening hours, through the PCCF 100% of the clinical commissioning group population can also access GP appointments 6:30-8:30pm on weekdays and on Saturdays and Sundays at their own or a nearby practice.

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