GP Surgeries: Broadband

(asked on 12th September 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries do not have access to a high-speed broadband internet connection in each region.


This question was answered on 15th September 2016

NHS Digital does not keep records on the availability of high-speed broadband at all general practice (GP) sites. However NHS Digital does have records for broadband services provided by the Department to GP sites through the BT N3 arrangements.

Across England, some 6,021 GP sites receive broadband services through the National Health Service N3 connection arrangements; of these 6,010 GP sites are defined as high speed (i.e. 512 kilobits per second or greater).

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