PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Telemedicine (27 October 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on meeting his NHS Planning Guidance target of 25% of outpatient attendances being delivered remotely by telephone or video consultation.

Asked by:
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)

NHS England is monitoring the use of virtual consultations as part of the Outpatients Transformation Programme. During 2021/22, there were 5.3 million first tele-consultations and 16.6 million subsequent tele-consultations, protecting access to services and reducing pressures on hospital outpatient clinics. In 2021/22, approximately 23% of all attendances were conducted by virtual consultation.

Answered by:
Will Quince (Conservative)
8 November 2022