Patient Engagement July 13, 2023
Four in ten patients said they faced appointment wait times that they considered longer than reasonable.
Appointment wait times are reaching a boiling point, with new data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) pitching nurse practitioners themselves to fill in patient care access gaps.
The survey of NUMBER patients showed that 40 percent faced what they considered a “longer than reasonable” wait to obtain an appointment. That’s an increase from 2022, AANP said.
Of those unreasonable wait times, 40 percent were longer than two months. All said, 26 percent of patients respondents told AANP they had to wait more than two months to get an appointment on the books.
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor