The Use of Online Consultation Systems or Remote Consulting in England Characterized Through the Primary Care Health Records of 53 Million People in the OpenSAFELY Platform: Retrospective Cohort Study

• Main Authors: Martina Fonseca (Author), Brian MacKenna (Author), Amir Mehrkar (Author), Caroline E Walters (Author), George Hickman (Author), Jonathan Pearson (Author), Louis Fisher (Author), Peter Inglesby (Author), Seb Bacon (Author), Simon Davy (Author), William Hulme (Author), Ben Goldacre (Author), Ofra Koffman (Author), Minal Bakhai (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundThe National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan, published in 2019, committed to ensuring that every patient in England has the right to digital-first primary care by 2023-2024. The COVID-19 pandemic and infection prevention and control measures accelerated work by the NHS to enable and s...