Cloud-Based Telephony

Call-handling benchmarking from NHS England's Cloud Based Telephony in General Practice dataset — measured against national, ICB and PCN averages. No login required.
The national picture across England — every reporting practice combined. Telephony reporting is opt-in and still rolling out, so these figures lead with rates (which don't move just because more practices join) and always show how many practices are behind them.

Latest month

Headline metrics — England

Call abandonment rate over time

Share of inbound calls where the patient hung up before being answered — coverage-robust.

Calls per 1,000 patients

Demand normalised to the registered list of reporting practices.

How long patients wait to be answered

National distribution of answer wait times (latest month).

Practices reporting each month

Coverage is growing — read the totals with this in mind.

Data source. NHS England — Cloud Based Telephony in General Practice (monthly). Indicators cover inbound, answered, missed and abandoned calls, callbacks, wait times and call durations. Wait/duration averages are estimated from banded data.