All around us, a new generation of technology is changing our lives. Each year more of us choose online routes to book GP appointments, order repeat prescriptions or view personal health records. Digital innovations have the potential to support and empower patients, helping people to remain healthy and independent for longer. Used well, new technologies can also help to alleviate workload challenges in practices.
The NHS Long Term Plan commits that every patient will have the right to be offered digital-first primary care by 2023/24.
But the current GP contract rules weren’t designed for digital-first services, and cause problems for existing practices, the NHS and new providers alike.
We are engaging on proposals and options to:
This includes proposals to:
Further information about the proposals are available in the document we have published to support this public engagement.
The consultation closes on Friday 23 August 2019.
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