Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2021 to Question 24898 on General Practitioners, what information his Department holds on how many GP appointments in April (a) 2019 and (b) 2020 were face-to-face appointments.
The following table shows the number of appointments in April 2019 and April 2020.
| Count of face-to-face appointments | Proportion of face-to-face appointments |
April 2020* | 7,480,941 | 46.8% |
April 2019 | 18,879,469 | 79.2% |
Note:
*The appointments in general practice publication is considered experimental statistics due to data quality issues, which impose limitations on what can be inferred from the data. Further information on data quality issues and the impact on data quality of the response to COVID-19 in general practice is available at the following link: