GP appointments

In England, 40.9% of patients saw a GP on the same-day they booked their appointment in June 2024, here are stats for each region. (Photo: Google Maps)

The best and worst areas of England for same-day GP appointments

GP appointments face major change with millions affected - how does this affect you?

Major change to GP appointments set to affect millions

Health bosses are urging patients to keep medical appointments during the junior doctors strike unless otherwise told

Patients urged to keep appointments during junior doctor strikes

EMAS workers in the GMB and Unite unions will be on strike again next week

Military being brought in to help ambulance service during latest strikes

There have been more than 265,000 missed appointments in Nottinghamshire this year.

Plea to patients after 265,000 fail to attend GP appointments in Notts this year

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with members of the media as he visits Croydon University hospital on October 28.

PM u-turns on pledge to introduce £10 fine for missed GP appointments

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves 10 Downing Street for his first Prime Minister's Questions on October 26, 2022 in London, England. It was Mr Sunak's first Prime Minister's Questions since taking office yesterday, following the resignation of Liz Truss. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Rishi Sunak plans to fine people £10 for missing NHS appointments

Top doctor says patients should be fined for failing to show-up for GP appointme...

More GP appointments will be available online over Easter

More GP slots available over Easter as patients encouraged to use 111 online

Nottinghamshire county councillors are warning of a 'disastrous situation' emerging over GP appointments

'Disastrous situation’ of long waits to see GPs in Nottinghamshire

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Nottinghamshire hospitals are seeing more Covid patients now than during the first peak

Nottinghamshire hospitals busier now with Covid patients than during first peak

Face-to-face GP appointments have risen slightly in Nottinghamshire but are still well below 2019 levels

GPs in Nottinghamshire delivering more face-to-face appointments again

Fears about Covid-19 has seen people staying away from their GPs

Huge drop-off in GP appointments in Nottinghamshire during lockdown

Almost 100,000 additional general practice appointments will be available right across the country.

Extra GP appointments in Nottinghamshire this Easter

More than 3,000 GP appointments were missed in Mansfield and Ashfield in December

Missed GP appointments in Mansfield and Ashfield cost the NHS more than £100,000

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