GP access

Government strategy sets out to increase access to medical technology

The government has set out an ambition to accelerate access to medical technologies as part of the first ever medtech strategy published last week.

7 February 2023
News

GP-on-demand service GPDQ deemed to be providing safe care by CQC

A GP-on-demand service has been deemed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to be providing a safe service in accordance with their regulations.

16 April 2018
Digital Patient

ZoomDoc launches crowd-funding campaign to help expand

A GP on demand service has launched a crowd-funding campaign to try and raise £500,000 so it can expand.

13 December 2017
Digital Patient 1

A 24-hour ‘video chat app’ aiming to slash waiting times launches across London

An NHS service giving patients the option to video chat with their GPs launches in London. It promises to slash waiting times, but is met with criticism.

7 November 2017
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Another view: of private doctor apps

Fresh from his first experience with Uber, our GP columnist is thinking about apps that give users instant access to services. Could the model used for the growing market of private GP apps be applied in the NHS? Neil Paul thinks so.

31 October 2017
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GPs get read and write records access

Clinical staff at Richmond’s new extended appointment hubs are able to read and write into patient records held in both Vision and Emis Web practice systems using Vision 360.

1 December 2015
Interoperability

Another view: of handling demand

Neil Paul is not impressed with the government’s new deal for GPs. Thankfully, some people are working on better ideas for dealing with patient demand than just getting docs to work harder for no more money.

1 July 2015
Digital Patient