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Scottish GP practices need to beef up online presence, think tank says

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g5308 (Published 27 August 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g5308
  1. Bryan Christie
  1. 1Edinburgh

Family doctors in Scotland have been urged to make better use of online services to improve access for patients.

Research carried out by an independent think tank, Reform Scotland, has found that only two thirds of Scottish practices have a website and just one in 10 allow appointments to be booked online.1

This is despite a toolkit developed by the Royal …

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