Our two-year urgent and emergency care recovery plan, backed by £1 billion of dedicated funding, was published in January 2023, to drive sustained improvements in urgent and emergency care waiting times.

At York Hospital, an expanded and redesigned emergency department was opened in July 2023. This has improved the provision of services, including same day emergency care (SDEC). SDEC supports patients’ access to timely diagnosis and treatment, without the need for admission to hospital.

The latest published data shows that at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the proportion of patients waiting 12-hours from decision-to-admit to admission has reduced by 6.9% in March 2024 compared to the previous year.

As of 13 September 2023, there are seven general practice surgeries rated ‘good’ (87.5%) by the Care Quality Commission in the Selby and Ainsty constituency.

We are investing at least £1.5 billion to create an additional 50 million general practice (GP) appointments by 2024 by growing and diversifying the workforce. In the twelve months to July 2023, there were 352.6 million appointments booked across England, up by 43.8 million compared to the twelve months up to July 2019.

The National Health Service is clear that GPs must provide face-to-face appointments, alongside remote consultations, and patients’ input into consultation type should be sought and their preferences for face-to-face care respected unless there are good clinical reasons to the contrary. In Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board, 69.7% of appointments were face-to-face in July 2023.