Your choice of GP practice: A consultation on how to enable to register with the GP practice of their choice - Closes 2/7/10
This consultation is seeking views from the public, from healthcare professionals and from other staff working in the NHS on new proposals that give patients a much greater choice of GP practice.
The consultation sets out the different options for organising healthcare for patients, and the potential implications of their choices if the current system of GP practice boundaries is removed.
It has been developed following a period of initial engagement with NHS colleagues, GPs, practice managers, and professional and patient groups.
The consultation commenced on 4 March 2010 and will close on 28 May 2010.
- Download consultation document (PDF, 2458K)
- Download summary document (PDF, 1065K)
- Download Your GP, your choice, your say - leaflet (PDF, 922K)
- Download impact assessment (PDF, 600K)
- Download equality impact assessment (PDF, 81K)
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_113437
PDF version Statistical Press Notice - General Practice Patient Survey 2009-10 Final National Results
Today Ipsos-MORI have published the results of the full 2009-10 GP Patient Survey which they are carrying out on behalf of the Department of Health.
Headline results of the survey are:
- 68% of patients reported that they were either very satisfied or fairly satisfied with their ability to get through to their doctor’s surgery on the phone.
- 80% of patients who tried to get a quick appointment with a GP said they were able to do so within 48 hours.
- 71% of patients who wanted to book ahead for an appointment with a GP reported that they were able to do so.
- 75% of patients who wanted to book an appointment with a particular doctor at their GP surgery said they were able to do so all of the time or a lot of the time.
- 81% of patients responded that they were either very satisfied or fairly satisfied with the hours their GP surgery was open.
- 90% of patients reported that they were either very satisfied or fairly satisfied with the overall care they receive at their surgery.
- 84% of people with a long-standing health problem, disability, or infirmity have had discussion with a doctor or nurse about how best to deal with their health problem.
- Of those who have had discussions about how best to deal with their health problem 88% felt that the doctor or nurse took notice of their views about dealing with their health problem, and 88% say they were given information on the things they might do to deal with their problem. 84% agreed with the doctor or nurse about how best to manage their health problem.
- There is no update to the data on GP Out of Hours Services. Questions on Out of Hours were included in the survey in Q1 and Q2 only, as two quarters gives sufficient responses to measure performance at PCT level. The questions will be included again in the 2010/11 survey.
Full release is available here www.gp-patient.co.uk/surveyresults
http://nds.coi.gov.uk/content/detail.aspx?NewsAreaId=2&ReleaseID=413882&...
http://www.gpchoice.dh.gov.uk/