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Stephen Kinnock, care minister
5 November 2025

Care minister discusses GP online consultation issues with ICBs

Care minister Stephen Kinnock held a call with ICB leaders to identify areas that are struggling to roll out online
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Stephen Kinnock, care minister
1 October 2025

GP practices in England to make online booking available all day

GP practices are required to keep their online consultation tools running throughout core hours from October, under GP contract changes.
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GP on phone
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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5 February 2024

Times Health Commission presents 10-point plan with digital at the top 

A comprehensive report from the Times Health Commission on Monday identified a 10-point plan for health that highlights a key
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23 August 2019

Out-of-area GP rules should be ‘withdrawn’, BMA says

The regulations 'are not in line' with wider NHS England policy and allow digital providers to prioritise healthy patients, the
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2 July 2019

NHSE consultation on digital GPs could stifle Babylon’s expansion

The proposed changes would address funding inequalities between local GP practices and digital providers and address high patient churn in
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Babylon 2
3 June 2019

GP at Hand’s primary care network application to be ‘considered’

Hammersmith and Fulham CCG has said it would “consider” an application from Babylon’s GP at Hand to become its own
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Neil Paul GP contract changes
12 March 2019

Another View: On whether a GP-contract-driven change is going to come

Our GP columnist has been reviewing the 2019/20 GP contract document. And while there's lots of talk of digital, Neil
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Babylon Healthcare Service Ltd
11 February 2019

New GP contract ‘penalises’ income for digital providers, Babylon claims

The new contract, published last week, sets out changes to the rurality index payment and London adjustment payment due to
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22 March 2016

Patient record access: March target likely to be met

All GPs will be able to offer patients online access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of the
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