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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Caitlin Doherty

Modernised NHS app could lead to better and faster care for patients – Streeting

Wes Streeting said if the health service’s app could be modernised, there could be ‘better and faster’ care for patients (James Manning/PA) - (PA Wire)

“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”.

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