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.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- 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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More questions by this MP on Health and care
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
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.
25 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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