Video: Government must enable e-consultations in every practice by 2022

The government must deliver the funding to enable the rollout of e-consultations in every practice in England by 2022, RCGP chair Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard has said.

Professor Helen Stokes-Lampard (Photo: Pete Hill)

In her keynote speech at the RCGP annual conference 2018 in Glasgow on Thursday, the Staffordshire GP hit out at tech firms for 'siphoning off' young NHS patients at the expense of patients in greatest need.

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