Question follow-through · 120480

General Practitioners: Telemedicine

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Changes to the GP contract in 2026/27, updated on 4 March 2025, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of removing the cap on online

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
18 Mar 2026
Answer
26 Mar 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 12 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department's publication entitled Changes to the GP contract in 2026/27, updated on 4 March 2025, whether he has made an assessment of the impact of removing the cap on online

  2. 18 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 26 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    The Department has not made a specific assessment of the impact of removing the caps on online requests on patient safety and general practice (GP) workload. Data on online consultation submissions is collected, monitored, and published.This is because th...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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