Patient Access

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Access Standards 2022 

A new set of standards were announced by the Minister for Health and Social Services in March 2019 that are aimed to raise and improve the level of services for patients in Wales from their GP Practices. 

These standards are:

• People receive a prompt response to their contact with a GP practice via the telephone.

• Practices have the appropriate telephone systems in place to support the needs of people avoiding the need to call back multiple times and will check that they are handling calls in this way. 

• People receive bilingual (Welsh and English) information on local and emergency services when contacting the practice. 

• People can use a range of options to contact their GP practice to make an appointment. 

• People are able to email a practice to request a non-urgent consultation or a call back. 

• People are able to access information on how to get help and advice. 

• People receive the right care at the right time in a joined up way that is based on their needs. 

• Practices understand the needs of their patients and use this information to anticipate the demand on its services.