Modernised NHS app could 'free up GP time' – Streeting

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By Caitlin Doherty, PA Media

“Younger” and “fitter” people could be directed to pharmacy care using the NHS App, leaving GPs to devote their “valuable” time in-person to sicker and older patients, the health secretary has suggested.

Wes Streeting has said a modernised version of the health service’s phone app could mean the NHS could “do a much better and faster job of making sure patients get the right care at the right time in the right place”.