GP appointments

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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

The flu nasal spray can be given to children in schools

Warning about danger of flu as child vaccination programme starts in Wigan

Junior doctor Behnaz Pourmohammadi on the picket line outside Wigan Infirmary during industrial action earlier this year

NHS bosses prepare for junior doctors to walk out of hospitals for strike

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

Major change to GP appointments set to affect millions

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...

Something had to give as surgeries took part in a mass vaccination programme against the Omicron variant

GP appointments hit by urgent vaccine roll-out

GP waiting times in Wigan are better now than pre-pandemic

Wigan GP patients faced shorter appointment waits than pre-pandemic

Fears over GP appointments

Wigan patients fearful to make GP appointments

Many GP appointments have been held remotely during the pandemic

Calls for more face to face GP appointments

Tens of thousands of GP appointments were wasted in Wigan during the pandemic

Tens of thousands of GP appointments missed in Wigan during pandemic

Wigan Infirmary

Wigan's hospitals to get £1.5m boost for maintenance work

Wigan patients offered remote GP appointments

Thousands of appointments were missed

Missed GP appointments in Wigan costing NHS a fortune

Missed GP appointments in Wigan have already set the NHS back hundreds of thousands of pounds this year, shocking figures reveal.

Isabelle Kirk

Missed appointments

Missed GP appointments in Wigan cost £170k a month

Text messages are sent to patients

Text messages are welcomed by GP patients in Wigan

Evening and weekend GP appointments have been rolled out across England

Evening and weekend GP appointments have been rolled out across England

Dr Tim Dalton, chairman of Wigan borough CCG

Wigan GPs are best for evenings and weekends

The NHS

A quarter of us make up half the workload for GPs and hospitals

Parents have been warned to have their children vaccinated

Winter flu warning for parents in North West