NHS England has published two technical resources to support delivery against the 2026/27 GP Contract requirement for clinically urgent patients to be dealt with on the same day. It is for the GP practice to determine which patients are clinically urgent.

• Recording Same Day Appointments for Clinically Urgent Patients sets out how practices should record these appointments using national GP Appointments Data (GPAD) categories.
• GP Appointments Data Dashboard: National Category Mapping Guide provides practical advice on using the GPAD dashboard to accurately map national categories to appointment slots.