@ShaunLintern Isnt that general practice overall? 45.9% of all appointments in July 2023 were carried out by a GP and 21.0% were carried out by nurses.

@alisonleary1 Yes it is.

@ShaunLintern Fails to point out that many practices like ours only do same day. If no appts that day you have to try again the following day. So can take a week or more to get a "same day appt" & that'll often be with a nurse practioner rather than a GP.

@ks_1968 Interesting and good to know thanks

@ShaunLintern My GP practise in Ramsbury is excellent - my daughter was treated to a nurse for a minor ailment last week with a same day appointment - she was not better in 3 days and so got a same day appointment with a senior GP Some practise are lucky and remain well staffed

@ShaunLintern But what was the total number trying to get an appointment. Good to see improvement but you need total demand ratio vs supply as there could be an equal number who did not get an appointment.

@ShaunLintern You are welcome.

@ShaunLintern I didn’t have an appointment but my GP just randomly phoned me at 6pm yesterday, and spent 10 mins going through all my medications with me. My GP has been fantastic ever since he joined the practice. I thanked him profusely!

@ShaunLintern @SteveBarclay won’t like that, doesn’t suit his agenda about Primary care

@ShaunLintern @CAM_Paddison looked at this a couple of weeks ago, a few myths to bust... not least those promulgated by (some) newspaper headlines.

@ShaunLintern @jmmander The real issue is surely the pathway to a GP encounter... at my surgery 1️⃣Call receptionist > 2️⃣book callback from nurse practitioner > 3️⃣telephone consultation with nurse practitioner > 4️⃣ agreed that need to see GP > 5️⃣ book GP appointment > 6️⃣ GP consultation

@ShaunLintern Don't know how the same day figure was calculated...virtually impossible to get a same day appointment anywhere in the country.

@ShaunLintern “Never in the field of human clinical service was so much owed by so many to so few….and all whilst under continuous gov, #NHS quango & right wing media attack.”

@ShaunLintern Well done GP Teams. Despite this hostile incompetent Gov. Time for #GeneralElectionNow

@ShaunLintern Amazing work Team GPs 👏🏽

@ShaunLintern So GP’s are working harder than ever before with fewer of them. Wonder when the government will thank them for this.

@ShaunLintern @RoshanaMN All with less GPs.. can you imagine if there were enough.. I wonder how you could do that..

@ShaunLintern Facts. Thank you Shaun 👍🏻

@ShaunLintern I do solitude if my maths is wrong but … So In July there were 29m appts at gps ? There’s supposedly 65m people in the uk . Let’s assume 1,5 visits per person , so a 20m people are sick each month ?? Nearly A 3rd of the population ??