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.

answeredSarah GreenDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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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  1. 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.

  2. 23 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 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...

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