Northfield<\/a> posting almost perfect results.<\/p>\n‘Best’ GP surgeries in the West Midlands, according to patients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- Hampton Surgery, Hampton in Arden – 98% of patients rated as good overall<\/li>\n
- Newbridge Surgery, Wolverhampton – 97%<\/li>\n
- Woodland Road Surgery, Northfield – 97%<\/li>\n
- The Sheldon Medical Centre – 97%<\/li>\n
- The Ridgeway Surgery, Sedgley – 96%<\/li>\n
- Penn Surgery, Wolverhampton – 96%<\/li>\n
- Bloxwich Medical Practice – 96%<\/li>\n
- Dr Kulshrestha Family Practice, Winson Green – 96%<\/li>\n
- Stourside Medical Practice, Halesowen – 94%<\/li>\n
- Kingsbury Road Medical Centre, Erdington – 94%<\/li>\n
- Weather Oak Medical Centre, Sparkhill – 94%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Patients were quizzed in a range of areas, and asked to provide an overall rating of very good, fairly good, fairly poor or very poor.<\/p>\n
While online appointments are available in some areas, the Department of Health and Social Care says it can be a postcode lottery, with some surgeries switching off online services during certain periods.<\/p>\n
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said: “Many GPs already offer this service because they’ve changed with the times.<\/p>\n
“Why shouldn’t be booking a GP appointment be as easy as booking a delivery, a taxi, or a takeaway?<\/p>\n
“And our policy comes alongside a billion pounds of extra funding for general practice and 2,000 extra GPs.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government hopes changes help address the ‘8am scramble’ for phone appointmentsGP surgeries will be compelled to offer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,211,9563,2671,16,15,4349],"class_list":{"0":"post-513922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-northfield","14":"tag-solihull","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wolverhampton"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115405554393311714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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GP surgeries will be compelled to offer online appointment bookings.(Image: Getty Images\/iStockphoto)<\/p>\n