Victory for millions of NHS patients as GPs ordered to do 1 thing from today | UK | News
All GP surgeries will have to accept online reservations at the opening hours of the operation for the first time today with a great victory for patients suffering for a long time. The moves in front of the doctors are the proposal to terminate the daily telephone lottery and “Health Apartheid olan that need medical care by receptionists.
Patients will be able to request an appointment, ask questions, and define online symptoms throughout the day instead of searching or visiting their surgeries personally. Online access changes wildly in the UK with patients who disable online reservation facilities when they reach a certain number, while others allow the function to work for a few hours a day.
Some have not allowed patients to use since Covid.
When patients cannot pass on the phone, approximately 6.6% end in A & E.
Maintenance Minister Stephen Kinnock said: ik We promised to make it easier for patients to struggle with the struggle of 08:00 and make patients access to GP applications – and this is exactly what we offer through our change plan.
“We bring our analog health service to the digital age, we provide more selection and comfort to patients. We have learned from the GPs that have already offered this service and collect prizes.
“The biggest increase for more than a decade – and we rented extra 2.000 GP throughout England. There is more to be done.
As part of the government’s reforms in the GP Convention, changes with BMA were accepted in April, but there is a widespread opposition from doctors who say they were very busy.
The new requirement for online access represents the best practice that some GP applications have already succeeded in the UK.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has attacked the drifting heel through online appointments: “In 2025, many patients cannot demand an online appointment.
“Many GPs already offer this service and will now be provided to patients throughout the country. This movement accepted by BMA will support the GPS to look at patients in need of non -emergency care. We have accepted open guards that patients will be directed to telephone or personally to participate in emergency appointments. BMA knows this.
“This government will always put the interests of the patients in the first place and we will not stop to keep our NHS back in the analog age.”
