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How Timely Is The Care Inside The VA System Right Now?

Veterans currently have over appointments scheduled.

are scheduled for care within 30 days of the requested date.

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are scheduled for care after 30 days of the requested date.

< 1% of total scheduled are considered time sensitive *.

Data last updated

This figure is drawn from extensive chart reviews of 9,582,703 appointments. A sample of patients waiting greater than 30 days, who were felt to be time sensitive appointments based on clinical need (because a requested return date was 7 days or less from the prior appointment). After the review, only 5.7% of those patients were found to have a time sensitive, or urgent, clinical need based on the chart reviews. This number represents considerably less than 1% of the total number of appointments scheduled.