§ Tim LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average patient consultation times were in each health authority area for(a) general practitioner and (b) hospital consultant appointments in the last 12 months for which figures are available. [19293]
§ Mr. Hutton[holding answer 29 November 2001]: The data are not collected either routinely or by health authority. The latest figure available, for general practitioners only, was in the GP Workload Survey of 1992–93. This showed the average GP consultation time with a patient was 8.4 minutes.