Proposal for ROCR Approval 1. Record New Type? 2. Unique R01245 Number 3. Title Primary Care Extended Access 4. Collection National Type 5. Other Reference 6. Description A new bi-annual (six monthly) data collection which was announced in a letter from NHS England director of NHS commissioning to CCGs on 19th February 2016 entitled of 2016/17 GMS Contract ‘Outcome Negotiations’. practices will be contractually “GP required to record data on patient access to GP services and allow it to be extracted or manually reported. The data required and the form in which it is to be collected will be discussed between GPC and NHS England. It will be used to inform NHS England of the availability of evening and weekend opening for routine appointments and is to be collected until 2020/21. The data will be collected every six months.” This is to support the policy outlined in objective 6 of the government’s mandate to NHS England. Specifically the mandate details a goal for 2020 that: of population has access to weekend/evening “100% routine GP appointments.” No data currently exists to capture access to pre-bookable appointments to GP services on weekday evenings and weekends through GP practices, hubs and federations. Therefore a short survey of predominantly answers has been ‘Yes’/’No’ produced. An example of a question is: patients “Do have the option of accessing pre-bookable Saturday appointments at their practice” The plan is to collect this information from GP practices twice a year. The preferred collection route is the primary Care Web tool
Proposal for ROCR Approval 1. Record Type? New 2. Unique Number R01245 3. Title Primary Care Extended Access 4. Collection Type National 5. Other Reference 6. Description A new bi-annual (six monthly) data collection which was announced in a letter from NHS England director of NHS commissioning to CCGs on 19th February 2016 entitled ‘Outcome of 2016/17 GMS Contract Negotiations’. “GP practices will be contractually required to record data on patient access to GP services and allow it to be extracted or manually reported. The data required and the form in which it is to be collected will be discussed between GPC and NHS England. It will be used to inform NHS England of the availability of evening and weekend opening for routine appointments and is to be collected until 2020/21. The data will be collected every six months.” This is to support the policy outlined in objective 6 of the government’s mandate to NHS England. Specifically the mandate details a goal for 2020 that: “100% of population has access to weekend/evening routine GP appointments.” No data currently exists to capture access to pre-bookable appointments to GP services on weekday evenings and weekends through GP practices, hubs and federations. Therefore a short survey of predominantly ‘Yes’/’No’ answers has been produced. An example of a question is: “Do patients have the option of accessing pre-bookable Saturday appointments at their practice” The plan is to collect this information from GP practices twice a year. The preferred collection route is the primary Care Web tool
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