Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the level of variation in waiting times for GP appointments.
We do not measure waiting times for a GP appointment. However, the GP Patient Survey shows variation between different demographic groups in patients’ experience of being able to book an appointment.
The Government is committed to improving access to GP services and ensuring that patients can access evening and weekend appointments by 2020.