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A new NHS app will make it quicker & easier to access health services and will be available to everyone in England in December 2018.

The new NHS app will give patients & and secure access to their GP record. Patients will be able to use it to:

• make GP appointments
• order repeat prescriptions
• manage long-term conditions
• access 111 online for urgent medical queries

It means patients will be able to secure a GP appointment with the click of a button, rather than join a queue of callers attempting to ring the local surgery at the same time each morning.  Patients will also be able to use the app to state their preferences relating to data-sharing, organ donation & end-of-life care