GP practices across Kent and Medway are facing disruption following a major IT failure which led to online services being suspended.
The outage left clinicians and administration teams at the majority of surgeries unable to…
Health tech firm X-on Health has integrated its Surgery Connect cloud telephony solution with the Medicus electronic patient record (EPR) platform for primary care.
Medicus, which launched in May 2025, is the first new core…
More than half of GP practices say that changes to online access had an adverse impact on patient care and staff, according to a British Medical Association (BMA) survey.
Changes to the GP contract, which…
Doctors’ leaders have voted in favour of GP practices refusing to comply with the requirement to make online consultation tools available throughout core hours.
Changes to the GP contract, which came into effect on 1…
Care minister Stephen Kinnock held a call with integrated care board (ICB) leaders to identify areas that are struggling to roll out online access to primary care and discuss how the government can support…
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Ric Thompson, senior vice president of health and care at OneAdvanced (Credit: OneAdvanced)
AI agents which automate paperwork management in GP surgeries could free up the equivalent of 150,000 additional appointments a week and…
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NHS England has announced that millions more people are using online consultation requests to contact their GP practice each month.
Figures show 6.5 million online consultation requests were submitted to GPs in September 2025, up…
GP practices must keep their online consultation tools running throughout core hours from today, allowing patients to request appointments, ask questions and describe symptoms online.
The changes to the GP contract come into effect from…
Scotland’s version of the NHS App will not be made available across the country until April 2026, the Scottish government has announced.
The online service, renamed from ‘Digital Front Door’ to ‘MyCare.Scot’, will be delivered…
Proxy access for families is being piloted on the NHS App, allowing parents and carers to manage their loved ones’ health.
The service being developed by NHS England gives people the ability to apply to…
