RCGP bans Babylon from sponsoring annual conference

The private healthcare company Babylon will no longer be a sponsor of the Royal College of General Practitioners’ (RCGP) annual conference, the college has said.

Kamila Hawthorne, RCGP vice chair, said that the decision followed complaints that Babylon held a recruitment event at this year’s conference in Liverpool in October.

Earlier this year Babylon launched the GP at Hand service, a pilot scheme offering NHS patients in west London …