Complaints against GPs up by more than a third on pre-covid level

The number of written complaints against GPs is now 37% higher than before the covid pandemic, figures from NHS Digital show.1 In 2021-22 a total of 99 459 complaints were made against GPs, up from 72 356 in 2018-19. No data on complaints were collected in 2019-20 during the height of the pandemic, and in 2020-21 72 087 complaints were recorded.

Overall, more than 225 570 written complaints about the NHS were recorded in 2021-22, up from 208 924 in 2018-19. The rise in complaints was mostly accounted …