Summary
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having major effects on how GP practices manage their workload, following requests from users we are releasing this management information to provide greater transparency and more timely data from our General Practice Appointments Data collection. This release includes data from the week beginning 13th April 2020 to the latest data available - the intention is to publish this data weekly to support primary care services during COVID-19 and allow for comparison with previous years.
Data is collected from GP systems which are designed for practices to use in everyday work and not for the purpose of data analysis. There are no national standards for data entry about activity and there is widespread variation in approach to appointment management between practices. This means that there are variations in data quality between practices.
This information does not give a complete view of GP activity so should not be used to infer a view of workload. The data presented only contains information which was captured on the GP practice systems. This limits the activity reported on and does not represent all work happening within a primary care setting or assess the complexity of activity.
These management information data may show slight differences if compared to the monthly official statistics subsequently released due to data cleansing processes applied.
NOTE: Publications released on and after 11/11/2021 have COVID vaccination and COVID booster vaccination appointments removed from the 'total appointment' counts. Therefore there will be some differences to counts of COVID vaccinations delivered by practice/PCN if comparing to previous versions of this publication.
For complete data quality notes, please see GP Appointments Supporting Information document.
The following two files form this management information release. There is also a metadata document to assist with interpretation of the csv files.
Summary tables, Weekly MI, England
this file contains summary tables, including appointment counts and breakdowns, for information included in the data files
this file contains appointment counts and breakdowns by sub ICB location, status, healthcare professional, mode, time between booking and appointment date, service setting, national categories, SDS role groups and actual duration for all participating practices in England
Last edited: 18 October 2022 12:43 pm
