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GP practices provided over 300m appointments in the past year
6 December 2018 By Sofia Lind
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GP practices are facilitating more appointments than ever, although fewer of those patient consultations are with GPs and more undertaken by other healthcare professionals.
This is the finding of a new NHS Digital data collection, which estimates that 307m appointments took place at GP practices in England in the past year.
This includes extended hours appointments done via the DES, but not those supplied via NHS England’s flagship seven-day access programme.
NHS Digital said the new GP appointments data will be published monthly, and should help track winter pressures in general practice.
The new publication is based on data extraction via EMIS and TPP and covers around 90% of practices in England.
Because it’s the first such data extraction, NHS Digital’s report compares the findings to previous data collected via the QResearch database of anonymised patient records.
The data showed that:
In the year to 31 October, GP practices provided an estimated 307m appointments – up from 299.3m during 2007 and 221.8m during 2005.
Over the past year, 52% of consultations were with GPs; 45% with other practice staff including nurses and physiotherapists, and 3% unknown
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