NHS Walk-In Centres

HC Deb 22 October 2002 vol 391 cc255-6W

Sandra Gidley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he will publish the usage rates of the NHS walk-in centres; and if he will make a statement. [74200]

Mr. Hutton

In aggregate, usage of National Health Service walk-in centres has increased from 0.575 million visits in 2000–01 to an estimated 1.4 million in 2002–03. As NHS walk-in centres are a pilot scheme we do not routinely publish performance data on individual centres. Monthly usage rates from March 2000 to August 2001 were, however, published in the independent national evaluation report by the University of Bristol. This is available on the University's website at www.epi.bris.ac.uk/wic/.