Accident and Emergency Departments

(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent estimate he has made of the number of patients visiting A&E departments after having been unable to make an appointment with their GP.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 10th June 2014

There are over 300 million consultations in general practice each year. The latest general practitioner (GP) patient survey results show that less than 2% of patients attended a walk-in centre or accident and emergency department because they were unable to get a convenient appointment with their GP at their practice.

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