General Practitioners: Standards
(asked on 27th May 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people are waiting a week or more to see or speak to a GP; and what assessment he has made of the effects of access to GPs on attendances at A&E departments.
This question was answered on 2nd June 2015
7% of people who wanted to see or speak to a general practitioner (GP) within a week were unable to do so.
Latest GP Patient Survey results suggest that less than 2% of patients who want GP appointments attend walk-in centres or accident and emergency departments.