The following table gives the percentage of general practitioners referrals to first consultant out-patient appointments booked using Choose and Book in September 2007, broken down by primary care trust (PCT). The overall percentage was 39 per cent. rising to 47 per cent. in October 2007 (for which final results are not yet available by PCT).
PCT name PCT code Choose and Book Utilisation September 2007 Ashton, Leigh and Wigan 5HG 34 Barking and Dagenham 5C2 35 Barnet 5A9 25 Barnsley 5JE 80 Bassetlaw 5ET 70 Bath and North East Somerset 5FL 20 Bedfordshire 5P2 35 Berkshire East Teaching 5QG 27 Berkshire West 5QF 39 Bexley Care Trust TAK 40 Birmingham East and North 5PG 40 Blackburn with Darwen Teaching 5CC 44 Blackpool 5HP 65 Bolton 5HQ 22 Bournemouth and Poole Teaching 5QN 62 Bradford and Airedale Teaching 5NY 43 Brent Teaching 5K5 33 Brighton and Hove City Teaching 5LQ 31 Bristol Teaching 5QJ 31 Bromley 5A7 16 Buckinghamshire 5QD 15 Bury 5JX 53 Calderdale 5J6 54 Cambridgeshire 5PP 23 Camden 5K7 27 Central and Eastern Cheshire 5NP 42 Central Lancashire 5NG 44 City and Hackney Teaching 5C3 75 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 5QP 43 County Durham 5ND 46 Coventry Teaching 5MD 79 Croydon 5K9 34 Cumbria 5NE 35 Darlington 5J9 44 Derby City 5N7 68 Derbyshire County 5N6 68 Devon 5QQ 52 Doncaster 5N5 66 Dorset 5QM 55 Dudley 5PE 35 Ealing 5HX 35 East and North Hertfordshire 5P3 8 East Lancashire 5NH 53 East Riding of Yorkshire 5NW 26 East Sussex Downs and Weald 5P7 23 Eastern and Coastal Kent Teaching 5QA 39 Enfield 5C1 32 Gateshead 5KF 32 Gloucestershire 5QH 39 Great Yarmouth and Waveney Teaching 5PR 32 Greenwich Teaching 5A8 39 Halton and St Helens 5NM 28 Hammersmith and Fulham 5H1 36 Hampshire 5QC 36 Haringey Teaching 5C9 23 Harrow 5K6 46 Hartlepool 5D9 48 Hastings and Rother 5P8 17 Havering 5A4 65 Heart of Birmingham Teaching 5MX 35 Herefordshire 5CN 39 Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale 5NQ 49 Hillingdon 5AT 21 Hounslow 5HY 4 Hull Teaching 5NX 60 Isle of Wight Healthcare 5QT 19 Islington 5K8 44 Kensington and Chelsea 5LA 45 Kingston 5A5 44 Kirklees 5N2 32 Knowsley 5J4 38 Lambeth 5LD 36 Leeds 5N1 4 Leicester City Teaching 5PC 54 Leicestershire County and Rutland 5PA 43 Lewisham 5LF 0 Lincolnshire Teaching 5N9 41 Liverpool 5NL 46 Luton Teaching 5GC 0 Manchester 5NT 34 Medway Teaching 5L3 48 Mid Essex 5PX 24 Middlesbrough 5KM 48 Milton Keynes 5CQ 87 Newcastle 5D7 28 Newham 5C5 54 Norfolk 5PQ 29 North East Essex 5PW 36 North East Lincolnshire 5AN 38 North Lancashire 5NF 31 North Lincolnshire 5EF 22 North Somerset 5M8 32 North Staffordshire 5PH 45 North Tees 5E1 38 North Tyneside 5D8 33 North Yorkshire and York 5NV 34 Northamptonshire Teaching 5PD 78 Northumberland Care Trust TAC 25 Nottingham City 5EM 56 Nottinghamshire County Teaching 5N8 66 Oldham 5J5 82 Oxfordshire 5QE 70 Peterborough 5PN 26 Plymouth Teaching 5F1 59 Portsmouth City Teaching 5FE 24 Redbridge 5NA 60 Redcar and Cleveland 5QR 51 Richmond and Twickenham 5M6 38 Rotherham 5H8 42 Salford Teaching 5F5 43 Sandwell 5PF 47 Sefton 5NJ 26 Sheffield 5N4 25 Shropshire County 5M2 35 Solihull TAM 34 Somerset 5QL 78 South Birmingham 5M1 29 South East Essex 5P1 31 South Gloucestershire 5A3 30 South Staffordshire 5PK 36 South Tyneside 5KG 52 South West Essex Teaching 5PY 23 Southampton City 5L1 44 Southwark 5LE 40 Stockport 5F7 78 Stoke on Trent Teaching 5PJ 36 Suffolk 5PT 14 Sunderland Teaching 5KL 76 Surrey 5P5 35 Sutton and Merton 5M7 24 Swindon 5K3 42 Tameside and Glossop 5LH 44 Telford and Wrekin 5MK 42 Torbay Care Trust TAL 57 Tower Hamlets 5C4 78 Trafford 5NR 21 Wakefield 5N3 27 Walsall Teaching 5M3 27 Waltham Forest 5NC 74 Wandsworth 5LG 21 Warrington 5J2 22 Warwickshire 5PM 50 West Cheshire 5NN 42 West Essex 5PV 27 West Hertfordshire 5P4 20 West Kent 5P9 22 West Sussex Teaching 5P6 32 Westminster 5LC 33 Wiltshire 5QK 33 Wirral 5NK 62 Wolverhampton City 5MV 30 Worcestershire 5PL 26 England Total 39
Good progress has been made in supporting the patient choice agenda. The Information Centre for health and social care is making a substantial contribution to the new national health service choices website. The Information Centre also provides information on a number of outcome measures, in particular:
an online database of general practitioner practice results under the Quality and Outcomes Framework, available at www.qof.ic.nhs.uk;
provision of information for the Healthcare Commission's web tool that enables heart patients to get easy access to information giving reliable facts and figures about survival rates; and
a website to give parents and carers of children with congenital heart disease information to help them make decisions about their child's treatment, including survival rates for the most common types of treatment.