Use of online tools rather than face-to-face consultations has led to misdiagnoses, missed illnesses and delayed care Patients have died after describing their symptoms to a GP in an online form ...

The humble face-to-face GP consultation may be in the process of becoming an anachronism. Last month, NHS England revealed the first inklings of its new NHS app. It was confirmed that – among other ...

Please can you describe how the average length of a patient consultation has varied over time in Australia? Well it hasn’t varied at all over the last 15 years, which I find pretty amazing because ...

Most patients appreciate the speed, flexibility, and efficiency of online appointments with their GP, but some desired a return to traditional consultation methods, a study found. Online consultations ...

Despite the strong push for technology development from the NHS, patient demand for video GP consultations is lagging behind the other options typically offered by digital appointment systems. This is ...

Patients have fewer but longer consultations with their GP, a new study of over 500 million anonymised electronic health records has found. The study published in the British Journal of General ...

Brett Montgomery works as a general practitioner, mostly academically but also clinically. In his clinical role he and his patients will benefit from the availability of teleheath funding of ...

Most patients felt online GP consultations were quicker, more flexible, and more efficient than traditional consulting methods, in the largest study of patient views on the topic ever carried out.