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Lord Scriven (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 March 2026

Debate

GP Contract

Contribution

My Lords, the Government have now mandated a cast-iron guarantee that GP practices’ online portals must remain open in core hours, but a portal is merely a digital letterbox, it is not a clinician. Has the department conducted a full clinical risk assessment of the danger of red-flag symptoms being buried in high volumes of routine digital traffic? If so, will the Minister publish those findings today? If not, how can the Minister guarantee that this always-on requirement is clinically safe for patients?

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