NHS app

The NHS App allows patients using the National Health Service in England to book appointments with their GP, order repeat prescriptions and access their GP record. Available since late 2018, the app was developed by NHS Digital and NHS England.[1] The health ministers Jeremy Hunt and Matt Hancock both stressed their support for the project. Hancock presented it as the key a radical overhaul of NHS technology.[2] Hunt claimed it would mark 'the death-knell of the 8am scramble for GP appointments that infuriates so many patients'.[3]

It can also be used to access NHS 111, set patients' data sharing preferences, record organ donation preferences and end-of-life care preferences.[4] All GPs in England will be required to connect to it.[5]

  1. ^ "New NHS app to improve patients access to GP services". OnMedica. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Matt Hancock's plan for an NHS tech revolution is doomed to fail". Wired. 8 September 2018. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. ^ "NHS app to end '8am scramble for GP appointments' by December". GP Online. 2 July 2018. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. ^ "Hancock to announce £200m for additional GDEs". Digital Health. 6 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  5. ^ "NHS app to be mandatory for GPs – NHS England". Health Service Journal. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.