The government’s new ‘Plan For Patients’ includes an “expectation” that a GP will see you within two weeks, not a requirement.
programme, Dr Coffey was asked about coverage in newspapers suggesting that GP’s “must” give appointments within two weeks, and whether the two week waiting time was “a guarantee, a target or … merely an ambition”.Speaking in Parliament
following the announcement, Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting noted that the two week waiting time was not a requirement, saying Dr Coffey had “made it clear this morning that it is not a guarantee at all, but merely an expectation.” The Department for Health and Social Care confirmed to Full Fact that the two week waiting time is an “expectation”.in Parliament, Dr Coffey also said the local NHS will be required to “hold practices to account providing support to those practices with the most acute access challenges to improve performance.”“showing exactly how many appointments each practice in England is delivering and how long people wait between booking an appointment and receiving one.
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