Chris Ruane – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Chris Ruane on 2014-06-12.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average length of a GP consultation was in each year since 1984 for which data is available.

Dr Daniel Poulter

Data is not held centrally on the average length of general practitioner (GP) appointments.

However, NHS England has advised that the latest information available indicates that the average consultation time with a GP is around 12 minutes (2006/07 GP Workload Survey).