Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what comparative assessment he has made of the effect of virtual clinic appointments relative to face-to-face appointments on (a) patient-clinician communication, (b) time to diagnosis, (c) time to treatment, (d) quality of patient care and (e) safety of patient care.

We have made no comparative assessment of the effect of virtual clinic appointments.