Even fewer face-to-face GP appointments are being held than feared because some phone consultations are wrongly getting recorded as taking place in-person, it was revealed today.
Official NHS statistics are recording some GP telephone and online consultations with patients as actually being held face-to-face due to the way appointments are booked.
Statistics from NHS Digital show that only 58 per cent of GP appointments in England held in August, the latest available data, were held face-to-face.
This is well below