Health Insight Survey dashboard

Time series

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Q4b: Thinking of the last time you tried to contact your GP practice, did you manage to make contact with them?
Q6b: How easy or difficult was it to make contact with your GP practice?
Q8b: Thinking of the last time you contacted your GP practice, how soon after that contact did you know how your request would be dealt with?
Q62b: Were you able to see or speak to your preferred healthcare professional?
Q14b: Overall, how would you describe your experience of your GP practice?
Q21b: When you were referred by your GP practice to see a specialist, were you offered a choice of hospital?
Q19b: How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the communication about your [NHS hospital] wait?
Q25b: How satisfied or dissatisfied were you with the NHS dental care you received?
Q35b: In the last 28 days, have you had any problems getting an NHS prescription at a pharmacy?

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Thinking of the last time you tried to contact your GP practice, did you manage to make contact with them?   

Question asked to: Respondents who tried to contact their GP practice in the last 28 days.

Changes over time should be interpreted with caution, particularly as new participants were added to the survey in Waves 14 and 17. Data should be examined over multiple time points to determine if a real trend exists.

The 95% confidence intervals (CIs) displayed on our charts are a measure of the uncertainty around a specific estimate. If a CI is calculated at the 95% level, it is expected that the interval will contain the true value on 95 occasions, if repeated 100 times.

Data for the Health Insight Survey are collected during a 22-day period every 4 weeks. Each survey window is referred to as a wave. Please note that data collected within the survey window can refer to experiences up to 28 days prior to an individual responding to the survey.

How easy or difficult was it to make contact with your GP practice?  

Question asked to: Respondents who successfully made contact with their GP practice in the last 28 days.

Thinking of the last time you contacted your GP practice, how soon after that contact did you know how your request would be dealt with? This could be advice given on the day or the scheduling of a call back or appointment.

Question asked to: Respondents who successfully made contact with their GP practice in the last 28 days.

Please note that from wave 13 the response options ‘Then and there’ and ‘Later on the same day’ have been combined.

Were you able to see or speak to your preferred healthcare professional? A preferred healthcare professional could be a nurse or doctor who understands your health issues better than others.

Denominator: number who were given a face-to-face appointment, a video call appointment or a call-back appointment and who have a preferred healthcare professional, excluding those who did not need to see or speak to their preferred healthcare professional.
Question asked to: Respondents who were given a face-to-face appointment, a video call appointment or a call-back appointment and who have a preferred healthcare professional.

Please note that data shown up to wave 12 are from the historical Q44 series, which is the closest comparison to the new Q62. From wave 13, the data displayed include a new question routing and a new response option.

Overall, how would you describe your experience of your GP practice?

Question asked to: Respondents who tried to contact their GP practice in the last 28 days.

When you were referred by your GP practice to see a specialist, were you offered a choice of hospital?

Question asked to: Respondents who had been referred by their GP to see a specialist in the last 28 days.

How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the communication about your wait?

Question was asked to: Respondents who are on an NHS hospital waiting list.

How satisfied or dissatisfied were you with the NHS dental care you received?

Question asked to: Respondents who had an NHS dental appointment less than 1 month ago.

In the last 28 days, have you had any problems getting an NHS prescription at a pharmacy?

Question asked to: Respondents who have used prescription services at a pharmacy in the last 28 days.