Millions of NHS patients are being offered an appointment with their GP by video on their smartphones under a controversial new scheme.
The service, which has left experts concerned, is to be trialed at a surgery in London but it is predicted it will become the standard way to ‘see’ a doctor.
Patients will be able to get a GP appointment within minutes using the new service, which will work 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The technology has been developed for use in private medicine by Babylon. It will be paid from the public purse to run the trial of the ‘GP at Hand’ service.
However, concerns have been raised it will create a two tier NHS, that sees the young being given a golden ticket and ‘cherry-picked’ while the elderly are left out.
