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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Technology
Jane Kirby

Patients to get online access to specialists ‘from comfort of home’ – Streeting

People will be able to use a ‘virtual hospital’ from 2027 to speak to specialists (PA) - (PA Wire)

Patients will be seen faster from the “comfort of their own home or their desk” thanks to a new NHS online hospital which gives access to specialists around England, the Health Secretary has said.

Wes Streeting told the PA news agency people will be able to use a “virtual hospital” from 2027 to speak to specialists, while those who prefer face-to-face appointments will still be able to have them.

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