NHS Digital produce this information monthly.
We’ve looked at the data about GP appointments in Southend for the month of September 2023. 75.2% of GP appointments in Southend were face-to-face, compared to 62.4% in England as a whole. GPs saw patients on the same day, or the next day, in 63.1% of cases. If you lived elsewhere, the proportion was 60.8%. The number of face to face GP appointments has gone up by 25% since April 2023.
We formatted the data into an easy read format to reflect our locality.
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The publication includes important information, however it does not show all GP activity/workload. The data presented only contains information which was captured on the GP practice systems. This limits the activity reported on and does not represent all work happening within a primary care setting or assess the complexity of activity.