Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 9799

General Practitioners: Telemedicine

Tabled: 17 October 2024

Answered: 24 October 2024

Named Day

Question

Sarah Green

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce risks to patient safety from the use of online consultation tools in general practice.

Answer

Stephen Kinnock

Although patient safety incidents related to online consultation tools are extremely rare, even a single incident is one too many, and the Government takes them very seriously. NHS England published the Primary Care Patient Safety Strategy (PCPSS) on 26 S...

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