Publication, Part of Cloud Based Telephony Data in General Practice

Cloud Based Telephony Data in General Practice, March 2026

Official statistics in development

Publication Date:: 30 Apr 2026
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Regions, Integrated Care Boards, Sub-Integrated Care Boards, GP practices
Date Range:: 01 Oct 2024 to 31 Mar 2026

For March 2026 a supplier has submitted duplicate data for a number of practices, this is being investigated by them and once this investigation is complete the revised figures will be published in a future publication. The total number of calls recorded for March 2026 is therefore higher than expected.

30 April 2026 09:30 AM

Summary

This publication provides information about the number of cloud based telephony calls received by general practices. This information is published monthly and includes practice-level data.

The publication presents a high-level time series from October 2024 onwards, showing monthly counts grouped by day and time of call of:

• The total count of practices included in this publication

• The total number of inbound calls into general practice

The outcome of those calls grouped into:

• Calls dealt with by either being answered, ending during the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) stage of the call prior to joining the queue to be answered, or as a result of a call back request

• Calls not dealt with that ended whilst in the queue to speak to a member of staff

The wait time (answered and missed) and duration (answered) of calls are also included

The suppliers of Cloud Based Telephony Systems provide the data for this publication on behalf of the practices that they serve, and which have agreed to participate in the collection. Some system suppliers are not yet able to provide data for this collection.

No patient identifiable or patient-clinical information is collected or available in this release.

Key Facts

Cloud Based Telephony data coverage

In March 2026, information was received for 5,248 GP Practices

This represents 84.5% of all open and active practices

Total calls to General Practice

There were 35,763,178 calls to practices in March 2026.

Total calls dealt with

In March 2026, 31,695,820 (88.6%) of calls were dealt with

53.9% were answered,

7.5% were calls that resulted in a call back request,

and 27.2% ended within the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) prior to joining the queue to be answered, in response to an automated message or diversion

Total calls not dealt with

There were 4,065,407 calls which ended whilst the caller was waiting for their call to be answered

This equates to 11.4% of all inbound calls

The time and day of calls made to practices

3,309,388 (9.3%) of inbound calls to practices in March 2026, were made between 8.00am and 10.00am on Monday mornings

Time taken to answer the call

Of the 19,276,219 calls answered by practice staff, 59.5% were answered within 2 minutes