Remote general practitioner consultations during COVID-19.

In a reversal of messaging before the COVID-19 pandemic, when ministers were encouraging an increase in the numbers of online health consultations, politicians have since demanded that general practitioners (GPs) in England reverse the shift to remote consultations that occurred during the pandemic. Supported by sections of the media, politicians are threatening to “name and shame” or restrict new funding to GP surgeries that do not provide a sufficient number of face-to-face consultations.