How soon could you get a GP appointment if you needed one?

[SneakyGremlins]

For me it's three to four weeks and I'm wondering if that's normal or not

Same day if it's urgent, otherwise within around 3 days if I don't want a choice of doctor. To see my own doctor, 2-3 weeks but I can get a same day phone appointment with her pretty much always and if she thinks I need to be seen she'll book me in at the end of a clinic.

I think I'm very lucky!

Routine appt generally 3 weeks, but I've been able to book them 2 days in advance before (helpfully using the online system which must be updated with cancellations in real time).

Emergency is same day

Either today or tomorrow. Live abroad.

Tomorrow morning. My GP surgery does an open clinic every morning. If you get in the queue about 8:30 or turn up just before 10:00 you are usually seen within the hour.

For an emergency appointment, same day. Otherwise 2-4 weeks, depending on if you want to see a specific GP.

Today or tomorrow.

Same day if urgent and ring at 8 or 2.
2-3 days if not urgent and you don’t mind which GP. Usually 2 weeks with my own GP but can be anywhere between 1-3 weeks.

Same day for an emergency - often the next few days for a non ememrgency, but it depends how fussy am I about which doctor I see. But I don't care and just go for whoever has a space first.

For non-urgent appointments about 3 weeks. But same day for emergencies. The receptionists triage you and tbh all of the 5times we have called in the past 12 months has come under their 'emergency' definition.

Reasons were:
-toddler high temp/chesty cough
-toddler suspected conjunctivitis
-toddler rash on back
-myself suspected broken finger
-DH possible allergic reaction

4 weeks usually. Surgery also has 2 emergency appointments per session.

Same day usually. You have to do that because they don't open the appointments up until 2-3 days in advance and they get snapped up really quickly. They're very good at investigating illnesses and getting you on your way to treatments without a big wait, too.

Same day for emergency appointments, usually with named gp and within a couple of hours from ringing first thing in the morning or for the afternoon ringing before lunch. Problems later in the day get an appointment in the rapid access clinic. I can ring at 4pm with a problem and get seen before the surgery closes at 6pm, it's usually a wait but your willing to wait when you need it. Gp may also call you back to get more details to triage in advance so you see the appropriate nurse or duty gp.

None urget usually with in 5 days. Receptionists are apologetic if they can't get you in the same week. I've often got same day too.

The only thing they ever have a longer wait for is coil fitting.

Lots of clinics run by the practice nurses or the gps areas of intrest.

Usually same day. My GP wouldn't book appointments very far ahead anyway.

Usually on the day if I call by 8.45 am (lines open at 8.30am) especially for children's appointments.

At my old surgery, I would have to wait about 6 weeks to get an appointment. Only other option would be to turn up at 1pm to register as an emergency then come back at 3pm and join the two hour triage and hope you get seen. So glad when we moved and I found a new surgery!! (other surgeries near where I lived refused to take new patients unless they were new to the area because so many were trying to leave my surgery).

That morning for an emergency where you have to sit and wait to see the Dr at the end of morning surgery.
For non emergencies a few days if you can go in any day, if you require a specific day/time it's normally within a week.
I appreciate how lucky we are

3 - 4 weeks for a non-urgent appointment. They use a triage system for more urgent appointments so you ring in the morning and get a phone call back either from a Doctor or Nurse practitioner who decide if you need to be seen or not.

Current waiting time is also 3-4 weeks for routine blood tests - you can get one quicker if you opt to collect a form and take yourself off to the hospital 23 miles away!

I have just had an issue with my eye (medical emergency if you use Dr Google). I opted to ring a local opticians rather than the GP. They fitted me in this morning (i only rang late yesterday afternoon) and I had the most thorough eye examination I have ever had - far better than if I'd gone to the GP.

I avoid the GP surgery as much as possible - rather find an alternative when I can eg optcian, pharmacist, private physio.

Same day for child.
Same day for emergency (limited number of emergency appointments, GP phones and triages if there is too much demand).
Within a few days for non emergency.

Wow, these answers are amazing! I hear so many people moaning about the NHS wait times. I'm in the US, and it takes me at least a month to get an appointment with my GP, child or not. If we need something more urgent we can go to an 'urgent care' drop in clinic right away, but that's not connected to my GP office. I guess I've been here long enough I stopped thinking of a month plus wait time as unusual -- I know I'm lucky to have any health care coverage at all. Still, sobering to remember I pay an enormous amount of money for the privilege of waiting weeks longer than you lot all do....

Always same day, can't book in advance for appointments

You'll be lucky to get an appointment at all with my surgery. Small, local practice with almost 15,000 patients on the books. Emergency, on the day appointments become available at 8am sharp. You have to ring at least 250 times before getting through, by which time, all appointments are gone. Repeat the next day and the next and the next....etc. We just go to out of hours now by default for the children. Myself and DH just suffer at home.

2 weeks last time I checked, about 8 moths ago. I work full time, and was running out of self certified days. I.e I would get a formal warning if I didn’t have a sick note. Had to ring 111 in the end.

I had pneumonia. Confirmed by a&e...

I usually go to the chemist first, and like the idea of doctors appointments being triaged.

Lots of people abuse go apointments, I just have to look at the parenting boards on mumsnet to know that..

If I arrive by 10, or maybe 11 I’ll be seen that morning. Amazing surgery and if I’m happy to wait I can see any Dr on duty. They’re without exception incredibly patient with my low level MH problems (anxiety) and once sent me off for a chest X Ray, must have put a code on it because they called me later that day with the results.
Other family members go to a different surgery and can usually call in the morning and be seen that day.
I’m incredibly happy and lucky with local NHS provision.

Same day always , but it's 60 euro

Normally the same day if you ring early enough.

Twice recently my dad has needed to be seen ASAP late afternoon, once the district nurse called and once he called, both times they got him an appointment within the hour

8pm tomorrow night (it's eleven o'clock at night here now).