Question follow-through · 86381
General Practitioners: Telemedicine
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department made of the potential impact of unlimited online consultations, introduced in the new GP contract, on the ability of GPs to meet patient demand.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 3 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 13 Nov 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department made of the potential impact of unlimited online consultations, introduced in the new GP contract, on the ability of GPs to meet patient demand.
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Nov 2025
Answer published
In February 2025 the GPCE agreed to make it a contractual obligation for all GP practices to offer access to online services throughout core hours (8:00am - 18:30pm), bringing online access in line with walk-in and phone access. To support practices in pr...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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