HC Deb 10 June 2004 vol 422 cc543-4W
Simon Hughes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of NHS patients were able to see a general practitioner within two days within London health authority areas in each year since 1997. [177047]

Mr. Hutton

Data for London strategic health authorities (SHAs) are shown in the table.

Percentage of patients being offered an appointment with a

general practitioner within 48 hours
SHA September

20011

 March

20021

 March

2003

 March

2004
North West London 75.4 69.5 80.0 96.9
North Central London 70.2 58.9 79.8 99.4
North East London 62.6 56.9 82.3 99.3
South East London 68.0 66.2 92.4 96.0
South West London 84.9 77.4 89.6 98.6
1Data collected between September 2001 and March 2002 are based on percentage of practices not patients and are not strictly comparable but are included here for completeness. Data for 2001—02 are an aggregation of data originally collected from the then 95 health authorities.