Question follow-through · 906545

Primary Health Care: Digital Technology

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to use digital technology to help improve access to primary care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
25 Nov 2025
Answer
25 Nov 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 19 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to use digital technology to help improve access to primary care.

  2. 25 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 25 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    We are shifting from analogue to digital with a transformed NHS App that will become the digital front door to the NHS. For the first time more people are contacting their GP online than by phone, and NHS App users have increased by 33% since last year. M...

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