Average GP consultation lasts 14.1 minutes, study shows

A new pilot study of doctor visits has shown that the average duration of a consultation was 14.1 minutes, and that patients had an average time between consultations of 99 days.

The research entitled 'A pilot study of the duration of GP consultations in Ireland' looked at data from three different GP surgeries and 15 GPs over a nine-year period from 2010.