The 2022 GP Patient Survey will soon be launched by NHS England. The data gathered in this survey will help determine the level of support that is allocated to Carers on a local level, so if you're asked to take part please do! It's a huge opportunity to help improve GP services for carers and those they care for. 

Around 2.4 million people, aged 16 and over, who are registered with a GP practice in England will receive an invitation to take part in Europe’s biggest patient experience survey in early January. GP practices have had to make changes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, so it is more important than ever that we hear about the experiences of using local GP and primary healthcare services. 

 

The invitations go out mostly by letter to a sample of people from each of the more than 6,500 GP practices in England. The survey team at NHS England and NHS Improvement will follow this up with a text message reminder (where a mobile number is recorded) alongside further paper questionnaires to encourage as high a response rate as possible.

 

Please do take the time to take part in the survey. It provides vital information to the NHS to identify what’s working well and what can be improved. It helps to identify inequalities in experience too, as the results can be analysed across different protected characteristics.

 

If you want to check out how your practice fared in last year’s survey, take a look at the survey website: https://gp-patient.co.uk/practices-search