Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether guidance is available to GPs to enable them effectively to direct patients to the NHS Apps Library; and if he will make a statement.

NHS England has advised that, as part of the NHS Apps Library programme’s next piece of work, the programme team will be providing advice for healthcare professionals generally, including general practitioners, on how to navigate and engage with the NHS Apps Library.

As part of the wider approach to uptake and use of digital health services, the programme team will also be focusing on general practitioner engagement, testing different methods to support general practice through NHS England’s implementation teams which are already established and working in the primary care system.