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Appointments in General Practice

Geography: Tower Hamlets This boroughas of Aug 2026
Total appointments●Your borough
163,212Aug 2026
Appts per 1,000 registered●Your borough
424.1This borough
Attended
86.3%of all appointments
Did not attend (DNA)
7.2%of all appointments

Contact-mode mix

Share of appointments by mode · Aug 2026 · This borough

Face-to-face: 53.9%Telephone: 38.3%Online / video: 5%Home visit: 0.4%Unknown: 2.4%163,212appointments
  • Face-to-face53.9%
  • Telephone38.3%
  • Online / video5%
  • Home visit0.4%
  • Unknown2.4%

Appointment type

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

General Consultation Routine: 29.4%Inconsistent Mapping: 22.9%General Consultation Acute: 14.3%Clinical Triage: 13.4%Planned Clinics: 8.5%Planned Clinical Procedure: 6.6%Care Related Encounter but does not fit into any other category: 3.2%Home Visit: 0.4%Structured Medication Review: 0.4%Social Prescribing Service: 0.3%Patient contact during Care Home Round: 0.2%Walk-in: 0.1%Service provided by organisation external to the practice: 0.1%Unplanned Clinical Activity: 0.1%Care Home Needs Assessment & Personalised Care and Support Planning: 0.1%163,212appointments
  • General Consultation Routine29.4%
  • Inconsistent Mapping22.9%
  • General Consultation Acute14.3%
  • Clinical Triage13.4%
  • Planned Clinics8.5%
  • Planned Clinical Procedure6.6%
  • Care Related Encounter but does not fit into any other category3.2%
  • Home Visit0.4%
  • Structured Medication Review0.4%
  • Social Prescribing Service0.3%
  • Patient contact during Care Home Round0.2%
  • Walk-in0.1%
  • Service provided by organisation external to the practice0.1%
  • Unplanned Clinical Activity0.1%
  • Care Home Needs Assessment & Personalised Care and Support Planning0.1%
  • Care Home Visit0%
  • Non-contractual chargeable work0%
  • Unmapped0%
CategoryAppointmentsShare
General Consultation Routine48,00229.4%
Inconsistent Mapping37,33822.9%
General Consultation Acute23,26514.3%
Clinical Triage21,79713.4%
Planned Clinics13,9348.5%
Planned Clinical Procedure10,8486.6%
Care Related Encounter but does not fit into any other category5,2843.2%
Home Visit7020.4%
Structured Medication Review5890.4%
Social Prescribing Service4240.3%
Patient contact during Care Home Round2540.2%
Walk-in2340.1%
Service provided by organisation external to the practice2020.1%
Unplanned Clinical Activity1080.1%
Care Home Needs Assessment & Personalised Care and Support Planning950.1%
Care Home Visit550%
Non-contractual chargeable work470%
Unmapped340%

Time to appointment

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

Same Day: 43.4%1 Day: 8.8%2 to 7 Days: 20.7%8 to 14 Days: 14.4%15 to 21 Days: 6.3%22 to 28 Days: 3.4%More than 28 Days: 2.9%Unknown / Data Issue: 0.1%163,212appointments
  • Same Day43.4%
  • 1 Day8.8%
  • 2 to 7 Days20.7%
  • 8 to 14 Days14.4%
  • 15 to 21 Days6.3%
  • 22 to 28 Days3.4%
  • More than 28 Days2.9%
  • Unknown / Data Issue0.1%
CategoryAppointmentsShare
Same Day70,88143.4%
1 Day14,3308.8%
2 to 7 Days33,81320.7%
8 to 14 Days23,46514.4%
15 to 21 Days10,3206.3%
22 to 28 Days5,5163.4%
More than 28 Days4,8032.9%
Unknown / Data Issue840.1%

Appointments per 1,000 registered

Last 13 months · This borough

max 521.6min 378.8Aug 2025Oct 2025Dec 2025Feb 2026Apr 2026Jun 2026Aug 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 · Aug 2026

Tower Hamlets average: 424.1

Where this geography sits

median 410.5min 337.7max 548.3424.1

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 · Aug 2026 · sortable

TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 1 PCN26,43748,215548.385.8%5.2%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 5 PCN17,08833,596508.690.4%4.8%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 7 PCN23,60251,580457.691%6.2%
BROMLEY BY BOW AND STEPNEY HEALTH CIC PCN25,28461,592410.588.1%7.9%
TOWER NETWORK PCN21,14257,341368.778%9.6%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 8 PCN22,76966,281343.585.6%8.2%
TOWER HAMLETS NETWORK 2 PCN12,51537,064337.783.3%11.4%

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About this data

Provenance & method

Source
NHS Digital ↗
Status
Official statistics in development
Latest period
Aug 2026
History depth
May 2025 → Aug 2026
Scale
98,245 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.
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