PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Accident and Emergency Departments (17 December 2015)
Question Asked
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.
Asked by:
Peter Dowd (Labour)
Asked by:
Peter Dowd (Labour)
Answer
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).
Answered by:
Alistair Burt (Conservative)
5 January 2016
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