NHS chief hails plans for online GP consultations
Patients will be encouraged to hold online consultations with doctors as part of plans to revolutionise the health service, the medical director of the NHS said.
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh said IT would “completely change the way we deliver medicine”, making access to GPs at any time a reality and giving patients the ability to talk to specialists anywhere in the country. He told The Times he was looking at using online services such as Skype.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients’ Association, said patients would “embrace” the proposals “in the right setting” but added: “People are already concerned that they are spending less time with their GP and we wouldn’t want this to be a way of reducing that further.”