Warning over 'Uberisation' of medicine

A new service offering pay-by-the-minute GP telephone consults has been branded ‘Uber for medicine’ by health information experts.

Teleconsult, launched a week ago, allows patients to book phone consultations with GPs and other specialists through an online booking system.

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Doctors who are signed up to the scheme