pharmaphorum June 29, 2022
Phil Taylor

The NHS App will be updated over the next couple of years to include a series of new features, including the ability to offer remote video consultations between patients and GPs, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.

The update to the app is part of a series of measures unveiled in the Plan for Digital Health and Social Care that describes how technologies will be used to “drive efficiency, free up hospital space and clinician time, and bust the Covid backlogs.”

From March 2023, more users of the app will be able to use it to message their GP, book COVID-19 vaccinations, check their medical records and manage hospital elective care appointments – assuming that their NHS...

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