How Long Did You Wait?

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Raj Medical Centre

Laceby Road, Grimsby, DN34 5LP. NHS practice code B81656. CQC: Good Jun 2016

Official NHS figures: appointments

August 2026

All appointments. This surgery labels only 13% of its appointments as general consultations, too few to compare fairly, so these figures count every appointment it recorded (3,857). That includes clinics and reviews booked ahead on purpose, which makes waits look longer.

44%
on the day they were booked
England: 45%● About the same as England
93%
within two weeks of booking
England: 82%▲ Better than England
1%
more than four weeks after booking
England: 6%▲ Better than England
Same day
44%
Next day
13%
2 to 7 days
30%
8 to 14 days
7%
15 to 21 days
4%
22 to 28 days
2%
Over 28 days
1%
MonthSame dayWithin two weeksOver four weeksAppointments
August 202644%93%1%3,857
July 202641%94%1%5,075
June 202645%92%1%4,837

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Appointments within two weeks of booking, month by month

Whether it is getting better or worse appears once there is a full year to compare.

Appointments within two weeks of booking, month by month, June 2026 to August 2026. The figures are in the table below.70%80%90%100%Jul 26June 2026: 92%. England 82%July 2026: 94%. England 82%August 2026: 93%. England 82%
  • Raj Medical Centre
  • England

The scale starts at 70%, not 0, so that changes can be seen. They look bigger than they would on a full scale.

The clock starts when the booking is made, so time spent trying to get through is not included. Each surgery chooses how to label its own appointments, which affects comparisons between surgeries.

Official NHS figures: phones

August 2026

How long callers waited before their call was answered. 3,027 calls answered.

37%
answered within two minutes
England: 62%▼ Worse than England
40%
waited more than five minutes
England: 19%▼ Worse than England

Calls that never got through

14%
of calls ended while the caller was waiting in the queue
England: 10%▼ Worse than England
932
calls ended in the queue that month
480 after waiting more than two minutes
  • 6,589 calls came in
  • 30% ended during the recorded message, before joining the queue (England 25%)
  • 10% asked for a call back instead of waiting (England 7%)

The answered-call figures count only calls that were answered. A call can end in the queue because the caller gave up, was cut off or got through another way. A call that ends during the recorded message may have been dealt with by the message itself, for example opening hours.

What patients report

No waits logged yet

0 of 10 logged. Yours would be the first. 10 are needed before figures appear.

Figures appear here once 10 people have logged a wait in the last 90 days. Official figures start the clock when a booking is made. Ours starts the first time you pick up the phone.

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Care Quality Commission

How CQC rates it

Good overall, inspection published 10 June 2016, 10 years ago.

  • SafeGood
  • EffectiveGood
  • CaringGood
  • ResponsiveGood
  • Well-ledGood

The CQC report

Ratings are the Care Quality Commission's, from its published directory of 1 October 2026, under the Open Government Licence. A rating stands until the next inspection, so check the date: many are years old. "Responsive" is the question about waiting. CQC data

In the waiting room

Sat waiting right now?

0 of 10 logged. Yours would be the first. 10 are needed before figures appear.

Tap "I'm here" when you sit down and stop the timer when you're called in. Figures appear once 10 visits have been timed. Nobody publishes how long patients sit in the waiting room.

I'm here. Time my wait.

From people getting prescriptions from this surgery

How long did your prescription take?

0 of 10 logged. Yours would be the first. 10 are needed before figures appear.

Log how long it took from asking for it to having your medicine. Figures appear once 10 people have logged one. We never ask which medicine, or what it is for.

Log a prescription

On hold

Ringing the surgery

Nobody has timed a call here yet, or too few to show. The NHS counts the calls a surgery answers; this counts what callers go through: redials, cut-offs and the wait in the queue.

Ringing now? Start the clock

Tap when you get into the queue, if you're cut off, and when you're answered. One question at the end: did you get what you rang for?

Right of reply

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Your rights

Know where you stand

  • No legal maximum wait. There is no law setting how long you can wait for a GP appointment, which is why logged waits matter.
  • A complaint answered properly. You have the right to have a complaint about NHS services acknowledged within 3 working days and properly investigated. Handbook to the NHS Constitution
  • Complain to the surgery or to the local NHS board that funds it. You can choose either. You have 12 months from when it happened, or from when you found out. NHS England: how to complain
  • Take it further. If you are not satisfied with the reply, you can ask the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to look at it. It is free. Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman

All your rights, and how to complain

General information, checked against each source on 13 October 2026. It is not legal advice. Follow the links for the official wording.

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