GDP

Thanks for an interesting article.¹ The rise in GDP the government ascribed to an ‘unexpected’ rise in GP appointments in May was presumably because there were fewer bank holidays. The late May holiday was moved to June, so I reckon there were 19 working days in April, and 21 in May (or about 10% more days). NHS Digital says there were 27.5 million appointments in May 2022 compared with 25.3 million in April. So, practices saw a similar number of patients per day in May (1.31 million per day) compared with April (1.33 m/day).