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Appointments in General Practice

Geography: Tower Hamlets This boroughas of May 2026
Total appointments●Your borough
160,490May 2026
Appts per 1,000 registered●Your borough
414.1This borough
Attended
86.2%of all appointments
Did not attend (DNA)
6.9%of all appointments

Contact-mode mix

Share of appointments by mode · May 2026 · This borough

Face-to-face: 53.6%Telephone: 38.3%Online / video: 5.3%Home visit: 0.4%Unknown: 2.4%160,490appointments
  • Face-to-face53.6%
  • Telephone38.3%
  • Online / video5.3%
  • Home visit0.4%
  • Unknown2.4%

Appointment type

National Category · Share of appointments · May 2026 · This borough

General Consultation Routine: 26.6%Inconsistent Mapping: 26.3%Clinical Triage: 14.7%General Consultation Acute: 12.6%Planned Clinics: 7.9%Planned Clinical Procedure: 6%Care Related Encounter but does not fit into any other category: 4.6%Home Visit: 0.4%Social Prescribing Service: 0.2%Patient contact during Care Home Round: 0.2%Service provided by organisation external to the practice: 0.1%Walk-in: 0.1%Care Home Needs Assessment & Personalised Care and Support Planning: 0.1%Unmapped: 0.1%Structured Medication Review: 0.1%Care Home Visit: 0.1%Unplanned Clinical Activity: 0.1%160,490appointments
  • General Consultation Routine26.6%
  • Inconsistent Mapping26.3%
  • Clinical Triage14.7%
  • General Consultation Acute12.6%
  • Planned Clinics7.9%
  • Planned Clinical Procedure6%
  • Care Related Encounter but does not fit into any other category4.6%
  • Home Visit0.4%
  • Social Prescribing Service0.2%
  • Patient contact during Care Home Round0.2%
  • Service provided by organisation external to the practice0.1%
  • Walk-in0.1%
  • Care Home Needs Assessment & Personalised Care and Support Planning0.1%
  • Unmapped0.1%
  • Structured Medication Review0.1%
  • Care Home Visit0.1%
  • Unplanned Clinical Activity0.1%
  • Non-contractual chargeable work0%
CategoryAppointmentsShare
General Consultation Routine42,64226.6%
Inconsistent Mapping42,17426.3%
Clinical Triage23,53514.7%
General Consultation Acute20,19112.6%
Planned Clinics12,6147.9%
Planned Clinical Procedure9,6946%
Care Related Encounter but does not fit into any other category7,3564.6%
Home Visit6210.4%
Social Prescribing Service3360.2%
Patient contact during Care Home Round2600.2%
Service provided by organisation external to the practice2320.1%
Walk-in1940.1%
Care Home Needs Assessment & Personalised Care and Support Planning1570.1%
Unmapped1510.1%
Structured Medication Review1120.1%
Care Home Visit1070.1%
Unplanned Clinical Activity830.1%
Non-contractual chargeable work310%

Time to appointment

Booking-to-appointment delay · May 2026 · This borough

Same Day: 44.5%1 Day: 8.3%2 to 7 Days: 19.1%8 to 14 Days: 14.7%15 to 21 Days: 7.3%22 to 28 Days: 3.4%More than 28 Days: 2.7%Unknown / Data Issue: 0.1%160,490appointments
  • Same Day44.5%
  • 1 Day8.3%
  • 2 to 7 Days19.1%
  • 8 to 14 Days14.7%
  • 15 to 21 Days7.3%
  • 22 to 28 Days3.4%
  • More than 28 Days2.7%
  • Unknown / Data Issue0.1%
CategoryAppointmentsShare
Same Day71,46644.5%
1 Day13,2598.3%
2 to 7 Days30,62919.1%
8 to 14 Days23,58314.7%
15 to 21 Days11,6427.3%
22 to 28 Days5,4863.4%
More than 28 Days4,3312.7%
Unknown / Data Issue940.1%

Appointments per 1,000 registered

Last 13 months · This borough

max 521.6min 378.8May 2025Jul 2025Sep 2025Nov 2025Jan 2026Mar 2026May 2026

Year-on-year

Appts per 1,000 by financial-year month · This borough

max 521.6min 378.8AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar
2025/262026/27

Top geographies — PCNs in Tower Hamlets

Ranked by appointments per 1,000 registered · May 2026

Tower Hamlets average: 414.1

Where this geography sits

median 412.6min 322.7max 524.5414.1

This geography is at the 57th percentile of 7 peers on appts per 1,000.

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All pcns — PCNs in Tower Hamlets

Current-period metrics · May 2026 · sortable

TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 1 PCN25,58148,769524.584.5%5.5%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 5 PCN16,61934,238485.489.8%4.8%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 7 PCN23,99152,172459.891.8%5.5%
BROMLEY BY BOW AND STEPNEY HEALTH CIC PCN25,47661,739412.687.2%8.1%
TOWER NETWORK PCN21,21757,570368.576.4%8.3%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 8 PCN22,07466,554331.785.3%7.9%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 2 PCN11,96737,081322.786.3%10.3%

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About this data

Provenance & method

Source
NHS Digital ↗
Status
Official statistics in development
Latest period
May 2026
History depth
May 2025 → May 2026
Scale
79,905 rows
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
How this is produced
Harvested from the NHS publication, joined on the ODS organisation tree (practice → PCN → ICB → region), idempotently loaded and auto-refreshed each month.
System operational
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