Recording same day appointments for all clinically urgent patients

The 2026/27 GP Contract includes a requirement that patients identified by the practice as clinically urgent must be dealt with on the same day. This supports a Medium Term Planning Framework target. This document sets out how practices should use national category appointment slots and the approach to measuring the Medium Term Planning Framework target.

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