Question follow-through · 2605
Health Services: Digital Technology
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of low digital literacy on patients' ability to access GP services.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 18 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 21 May 2026
- Answer
- 21 May 2026 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
18 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of low digital literacy on patients' ability to access GP services.
21 May 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 May 2026
Answer published
General practices (GPs) are independent businesses that hold contracts with the National Health Service to perform essential services to the public. As a part of this contract, we require practices to provide online consultation tools. Online consultation...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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