The government published its recovery plan for access to primary care, with £240 million for cloud telephony and digital communications. The plan includes targets for using the NHS App for records access, booking and repeat prescriptions that look ambitious.
Many GP practices have not enabled the functionality planned under the GP Access programme, and public use of the NHS App has stalled. Interestingly, online triage and GP consultation provider Babylon announced plans to go back private this week after a disastrous floatation. Although it once threatened to disrupt NHS primary care, it is now focused on the US.
