Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate her Department has made of the proportion of GP appointments in Walsall South constituency conducted face-to-face in the past 12 months; and what that figure was in 2013.
This information is not collected in the format requested. However, in the 12 months to September 2022, there were 6.67 million general practice appointments in the NHS Black Country Integrated Care System area, excluding COVID-19 vaccinations. Of these, 65% were conducted face-to-face.