Plans to make the NHS app the default method of communication for millions of patients have been cautiously welcomed by DAUK\u2019s GP committee.\r\n\r\nDr Steve Taylor, Doctors\u2019 Association UK (DAUK) GP spokesperson and a GP in Manchester, said the app was \u2018excellent\u2019.\r\n\r\nDescribing it as the \u2018cherry on the cake\u2019, he told national radio listeners the app had the potential to save the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds.\r\n\r\nBut he said the NHS needed investment in frontline staff, equipment, and buildings for the app to reach its full potential.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe app is the cherry on top of the cake. The problem is the cake is a bit small,\u201d Dr Taylor told listeners to LBC.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe do need to spend some money if we want access to healthcare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added: \u201cDespite the headlines of 1,500 extra GPs in work, those jobs that (health secretary) Wes Streeting has announced are not substantive roles.\r\n\r\n\u201cThey\u2019re not seeing patients in the same way I would see patients because they are in all sorts of roles all over practices.\u201d\r\n\r\nHe was commenting on Government plans for the NHS App to become the go-to method of communication for patients.\r\n\r\nThe Government said it would avoid the need to send at least 50 million letters through the post.\r\n\r\nThis would save an estimated \u00a3200 million across the system over the next three years, the Government said.\r\n\r\nDr Taylor told LBC that, as a GP, he could see a lot of potential for the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe hope is to use the app to book appointments and do other things,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019d love for our hospital colleagues to send prescriptions to local pharmacists. That would save me as a GP the most time.\r\n\r\n\u201cOne of the things I struggle with the most is the lack of a joined-up approach.\r\n\r\n\u201cBut the problem, as I alluded to, is not enough cake. Doctors are struggling to find work.\u201d\r\n\r\nListen to Dr Taylor\u2019s interview in full<\/a>.\r\n\r\nPlease support our work by contributing to our crowd funder<\/a> or by becoming a member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plans to make the NHS app the default method of communication for millions of patients have been cautiously welcomed by DAUK\u2019s GP committee. Dr Steve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,59],"tags":[132,107],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-general-practice","tag-nhs","tag-nhs-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}