What does the app do? Currently, people can use the NHS app to book appointments, order repeat prescriptions and choose the pharmacy they’d like to use to collect their medication.

The government will bring in the app changes from March, allowing patients at the vast majority (more than 85 per cent) of acute NHS trusts to view their appointments in the app. At that point, ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) --- Patients with symptoms of COVID-19 can now schedule their testing appointments online with Monument Health, making it easier for patients and less busy for nurses.

What will changes to the NHS app mean? The feature that allows some patients to contact their GP or hospital through the app will be expanded to cover most people who require non-urgent treatment.

When the NHS app was launched in 2019, then health minister Jeremy Hunt boasted it would ‘mark the death-knell of the 8am scramble for GP appointments that infuriates so many patients’.

Millions more patients will receive appointment reminders, screening invitations and test results via the NHS App, avoiding the need for ‘at least 50 million letters’, the Government has said. In ...