Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent discussions he has had with Clinical Commissioning Groups on commissioning digital GP services.

The Department and the National Health Service want to ensure that all patients have access to high quality primary care when they need it. Technological advances mean there are now more innovative ways patients can access health services and we are exploring how we can make the most of those.

NHS England has committed £45 million to clinical commissioning groups to enable general practices to provide online consultation as part of their service offer. They will be able to procure systems to support these services from a nationally developed shortlist.