Question follow-through · 9799
General Practitioners: Telemedicine
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 23 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 24 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Oct 2024
Question tabled
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.
23 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Oct 2024
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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