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Wes Streeting says technology frees up hospital appointments
18 September 2025

Safeguards are needed for online consultation changes, says BMA

The government and NHSE have not listened to GPs' concerns around changes to online consultations from 1 October, said the
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4 July 2025

BMA warns GP online consultation changes may cause waiting lists

BMA leaders have warned that making GP practices keep online tools open all day will risk a spike in workload
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Coffee Time Briefing
3 July 2025

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This Coffee Time Briefing includes STADA's Health Report 2025 and its findings on trust in AI and a partnership for
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20 June 2025

BMA warns GPs on the ‘substantial’ risks of AI scribing tools

The British Medical Association has advised that GPs should pause the use of AI scribing tools unless they have carried
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4 June 2025

AI project to predict health outcomes paused over GP data concern

NHSE has paused development of an AI model capable of predicting future health outcomes after concerns about the use of
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4 July 2024

BMA advises GPs not to share cloud-based telephony call data with NHSE

The BMA's GP Committee England has warned that NHS England could use cloud-based telephony data to ‘performance manage’ GP practices.
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11 April 2024

Upgraded phone technology for GP practices rolled out across England

Upgraded phone technology has been rolled out across the country, enabling more patients to get through to their GP surgery
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Online medical record electronic patient record EPR
30 November 2022

Automatic roll-out of Citizen Access to GP records halted at eleventh hour

In a last-minute decision NHS England has halted the roll-out of a scheme that would have given all NHS patients
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7 June 2021

BMA and RCGP issue joint letter to NHS Digital over GPDPR programme

The pair have issued a joint letter to NHS Digital to express concerns about the General Practice Data for Planning
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24 June 2020

Lack of ‘robust’ digital systems is pilling pressure on GPs

Lack of robust digital systems and sustainable plans leading to extra work for GPs, a British Medical Association (BMA) survey
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