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Disparities in the use of remote general practice consultations: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic, an analysis of 19 million electronic health records using OpenSAFELY

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Abodunrin Aminu, Dr David SinclairORCiD

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Author(s): Aminu AQ, Sinclair DR, Davies K, Hall A, Wiedemann M, O'Neill TW, Clegg A, Todd C

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: BMC Medicine

Year: 2025

Volume: 23

Online publication date: 02/12/2025

Acceptance date: 21/10/2025

Date deposited: 17/04/2026

ISSN (electronic): 1741-7015

Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd.

URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04469-1

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-025-04469-1

Data Access Statement: Data cannot be shared publicly due to governance restrictions. Access to the underlying raw pseudonymised patient data is restricted to approved researchers on the OpenSAFELY platform. All code for data management, analyses, and codelists used in this study is freely available at [GitHub - opensafely/digital-access-to-primary-care: Digital access to primary care for older people during COVID] (https://github.com/opensafely/digital-access-to-primary-care).

PubMed id: 41331593


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Funder referenceFunder name
Data and Connectivity strand (MC_PC_20058) [2021–2022]
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Unit in Older People and Frailty (funding reference PR-PRU-1217–2150)
MRC (MR/V015737/1) [2020–2021]
MRC via the National Core Study programme, Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing strand (MC_PC_20030, MC_PC_20059) [2020–2022]
NHS England via the Primary Care Medicines Analytics Unit [2021–2024]
NIHR OPFPRU funding is for PRU research programme including this project, with grant paid to University of Manchester
NHS England [2023–2025]
NIHR and MRC via the CONVALESCENCE programme (COV-LT-0009, MC_PC_20051) [2021–2024]
NIHR Policy Research Unit in Healthy Ageing (funding reference NIHR206119)
Wellcome Trust (222097/Z/20/Z) [2020–2024]

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