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The NHS: online and out of sight?
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals the reasons why the Tories are pushing a ‘see-your-GP-by smartphone’ approach nobody, doctors or patients, asked for
THE DOCTOR WON’T SEE YOU NOW: App ‘Push Doctor’ has been ruled unsafe

ONLINE GP consultations are at the centre of the Tories’ new “NHS Plan.”

There is no big demand from within the NHS for online GPs or real evidence they will improve health. So why?

Well first, it will hand over more NHS services to big corporations. Second, a former Tory Health Minister, who is currently an adviser to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, works for an online GP firm: Nicola Blackwood now sits on the board of Push Dr Lt, which calls itself “the UK’s number 1 online doctor.”

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