{"id":201712,"date":"2025-12-24T15:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:05:08","slug":"record-number-of-patients-using-nhs-app-to-manage-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/201712\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-number of patients using NHS app to manage health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The NHS app has more than 39 million registered users and in the last 12 months around 67 million repeat prescriptions were ordered through it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Latest figures show 62.3 million logins to the app were made in November alone, an increase of 43 per cent compared to monthly average in the past 12 months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There were also 20.8 million views of GP health records, 6.6 million appointments managed for hospital and other secondary care services, and 6.3 million repeat prescriptions ordered during November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  New features have been added to the app this year including an Amazon-style prescription tracker which is available for around 2,000 pharmacies and a family feature which allows parents and carers to manage their loved ones\u2019 health.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The app is set to be a key part of the new NHS Online service which is due to launch in 2027.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It will allow patients to book specialist virtual appointments through the app.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Health innovation minister Dr Zubir Ahmed said: \u201cIt shows how convenient it is to have the NHS in your pocket that record numbers of patients have used the app this year.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added: \u201cOur 10 Year Health Plan is already shifting care from analogue to digital and building an NHS that is fit for the future and fit for us all.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NHS app has more than 39 million registered users and in the last 12 months around 67&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-201712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}