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GP phone consultations are being falsely recorded as face-to-face appointments, health chiefs admitted last night.
In-person appointments made up around 80 per cent of the total before the pandemic but have fallen to 58 per cent in the latest monthly figures.
Even this number is thought to be inflated because of a systems error.
‘We do acknowledge that there may be quality issues with the data and instances where the data may not be a true representation of what may be happening in all practices,’ an NHS official told the Daily Telegraph.
The average number of sessions GPs works in a day have gone down over the last decade while their wage growth has gone up. In 2012 the average GP worked 7.3 sessions a week but this has now fallen to 6.6 a week, the equivalent of just over three days of work a week. In the same period the average GP income went up by more than £6,000. A GP's daily work is divided into sessions. According to the NHS, a full-time GP works 8 sessions a week, formed of two sessions a day, generally starting at 8am and finishing at 6.30pm, though these hours can vary
