Guidance for practices on standard national general practice appointment categories has been published to support the mapping of local appointment slots to these new categories. This follows from guidance published in August 2020 jointly with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the British Medical Association General Practitioners Committee, which introduced an agreed definition of a general practice appointment.

NHS Digital are hosting several webinars to supplement this guidance and the categorisation. There are also some short demos that cover how best to carry out the national mapping exercise:

• EMIS WEB users: GP Appointments Data (GPAD) - HowbeckHow2
• TPP SystmOne users: GPAD Mapping - TPP Demo