Recent statistics from the latest GP Patient Survey, produced by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England, show that the majority of patients (71 percent) had a good experience booking an appointment.
This represents an overall rise (up from 65 percent), despite a public row brewing over whether doctors are seeing enough people face-to-face.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has now unveiled a £250m package for GPs in England to improve access to their services - but only if they increase the number of in-person consultations.
GP groups have responded angrily, accusing ministers of failing to grasp the scale of the staffing crisis affecting surgeries.
The patient survey contacted 2.4 million people from January to April of this year to gather information on how patients feel about their local GP service, and around a third of them responded.
The picture in Peterborough is mixed with some surgeries receiving over 80 percent satisfaction with their booking appointment system, while others poll as low as 33 percent. At one Peterborough surgery, just 6.7 percent of those who responded said they had a very good experience.
Here we reveal the GP practices in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group area which were voted the easiest/hardest to make an appointment at. Sixteen surgeries were ranked in the city.
Surgeries have been ranked by the proportion of patients who said their experience of booking an appointment was ‘very good/poor’.
5. Central Medical Centre
111 forms completed. Booking experience: Very good 31.1%, Fairly good 40.6%, neither good nor poor 19.2%, Fairly poor 6.7%, Very poor 2.4%. 55th in Cambridgeshire. Photo: Midlands
6. Westwood Clinic
127 forms completed. Booking experience: Very good 30.1%, Fairly good 41.2%, neither good nor poor 16.1%, Fairly poor 10.2%, Very poor 2.5%. 56th in Cambridgeshire. Photo: Midlands
7. Thorpe Road Surgery
129 forms completed. Booking experience: Very good 28.3%, Fairly good 36.7%, neither good nor poor 18.7%, Fairly poor 11.2%, Very poor 5.1%. 62nd in Cambridgeshire. Photo: Midlands
8. Octagon Medical Practice (Bretton, Hodgson, Jenner, Nene Valley, Park, Thomas Walker, Thorney and Eye, Westgate)
121 forms completed. Booking experience: Very good 27.0%, Fairly good 31.9%, neither good nor poor 25.8%, Fairly poor 5.2%, Very poor 10.1%. 66th in Cambridgeshire. Photo: Midlands