PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
General Practitioners: North West (17 November 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate his Department has made of the number of in person appointments with GPs available for patients in (a) the North west, (b) Greater Manchester and (c) Stockport.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

No such estimate has been made as the numbers of general practitioner (GP) appointments are not collected in advance.

However, the most recent data suggests that the number of in person appointments with GPs recorded in these regions in September 2021 was 840,000 or 24% of the total in the North West region, 320,000 or 24% of the total in Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and 50,000 or 29% of the total in Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG). Nationally, 25% of appointments with GPs were face-to-face in September 2021.

The number of appointments recorded in practices overall was 2,082,230 or 59.2% of the total in the North West region, 755,792 or 57% of the total in Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership STP and 104,457 or 61.7% of the total in Stockport CCG. Nationally, 60.8% of appointments in practices were face-to-face in September 2021.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
22 November 2021