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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Ellie Ng

GPs vote to enter dispute with Government over online appointment requests

The reforms aim to free up GP phone lines for urgent inquiries and help end the 8am rush to schedule appointments over the phone (PA) - (PA Archive)

GPs in England have voted to go back into dispute with the Government over upcoming contract changes which will require surgeries to allow patients to request appointments online.

The reforms, due to come into effect in October, would enable people to make the requests for non-urgent problems, with the aim to free up phone lines for urgent inquiries and help end the 8am rush to schedule appointments over the phone.

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