Grahame Morris – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Grahame Morris on 2016-10-07.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of GP waiting times in (a) the North East and (b) County Durham.

David Mowat

The information required is not collected centrally.

The latest GP Patient Survey for July 2016 on waiting times at general practitioner surgeries was conducted by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England. That survey found that for patients served by the NHS Durham, Dales, Easington and Sedgefield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), 64% feel that they do not normally have to wait too long, whereas 27% feel that they have to wait too long. This compares nationally with 58% and 34% respectively.

The full Ipsos MORI GP Patient Survey results for the NHS Durham, Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG can be found at:

https://gp-patient.co.uk/slidepacks/July2016#N

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