Will the new NHS app make it easier to see a GP?

You’ll be able to book appointments and order repeat prescriptions

“It will mark the death knell of the 8am scramble for GP appointments that infuriates so many patients” Do you consider yourself an ‘expert patient’? That’s what we might all become when the NHS launches its GP-booking app in December, according to former health secretary Jeremy Hunt. Mr Hunt, who announced the app a week before replacing Boris Johnson as foreign secretary, said it will “put patients in control” by letting them book appointments, order repeat prescriptions, and see their medical records and test results. He called the app a “70th birthday present from the NHS to the British people”, adding that it should mark “the death knell of the 8am scramble for GP appointments that infuriates so many patients”. But this ambition has been questioned by leading GPs, who…

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