Question follow-through · 104431
General Practitioners
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the online GP booking system introduced on 1 October 2025 on the digitally excluded.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 18 Mar 2026 · 69 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the online GP booking system introduced on 1 October 2025 on the digitally excluded.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2026
Answer published
The contractual change made on 1 October 2025 required general practices to keep their existing online systems open during core hours, allowing patients to contact the practice online between 8am and 6.30pm. Telephone and in-person routes continue to oper...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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