Primary Health Care: Standards
(asked on 30th June 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what information his Department collects on average waiting times for (a) appointments with NHS dentists and (b) GP appointments.
This question was answered on 6th July 2015
The data on waiting times to see a dentist or general practitioner (GP) in England is not held centrally. However, the latest GP Patient Survey published in July 2015 shows that 84.8% of patients rated their overall experience of their GP surgery as fairly or very good. The latest GP Patient Survey Dental Statistics published in July 2015 shows that 85% of patients rated their NHS Dental experience as fairly or very good.