Peter Dowd – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Peter Dowd on 2015-12-17.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the number of patients who went to A&E after being unable to make an appointment with their GP in the most recent period for which figures are available.

Alistair Burt

Of those patients who either were not able to get an appointment or get a convenient appointment in the last GP Patient Survey, 9.9% indicated that they went to accident and emergency or a walk-in centre (an increase of 0.5 percentage points since 2013-14).