Every doctor who takes consultations on Dr Quick will hold GMC registration, a licence to practise and a place on the GP Register. Nobody sees a patient until those have been checked.

You’re matched to the next GP who is free, rather than booking a slot in a diary. We’ll publish our actual waiting times once we have launched and can measure them.

If the GP judges that you need one, yes — writing it is covered by the price you were quoted. You pay the pharmacy for the medicine itself, as you would with any private prescription. Some medicines cannot safely be prescribed remotely, and Schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs never are.

Not yet — we have not launched. Dr Quick will be a CQC-registered clinical service at launch, and nobody will be seen before that registration is in place.

With your consent we send a summary of the consultation to your NHS GP. That is good practice for remote care, and it keeps your medical record complete. If you would rather we did not, that is your call — but without it the GP may not have enough information to prescribe safely, and may decline. The same applies if you are not registered with an NHS GP.

We will confirm how consultations for under-18s work before we open. Parental responsibility and identity checks have to be right first.

We use it to tell you when Dr Quick opens, and for nothing else. We do not share it or sell it, and your email address is the only thing we ask you for today. We keep it until launch and for no more than twelve months after that, then delete it. You can ask us to delete it sooner at any time, and if you think we have handled it badly you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

England, at launch. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are regulated separately, so they are not covered at launch.

No. You would work as a self-employed contractor and invoice per consultation. There is no exclusivity and no notice period, so NHS, locum or partnership work carries on alongside it.

Your own. Private telehealth is not covered by the NHS clinical negligence schemes, so you need cover from a medical defence organisation for this work. We check it before your first consultation and we do not provide it for you.

GMC registration, your licence to practise, your place on the GP Register, an enhanced DBS check, right to work and indemnity. Nothing is matched to you until all of them are in place, and we re-check them as they fall due.

No. Whether a prescription is appropriate at all is entirely your clinical judgement, and nothing on the platform is measured on how often you write one. Schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs are prohibited across the platform, so those requests do not reach you.

Fifteen minutes is the standard consultation. If someone needs longer, needs a physical examination, or needs to be seen in person, saying so is the right clinical answer and it is not held against you.

A computer with a camera, a private room and a reliable connection. The consultation runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install.

We use your name, email address, mobile number and GMC reference number to check you on the GMC register and to contact you about launching. That is all — we do not share them or sell them, and we ask for nothing else today. We keep them until launch and for no more than twelve months after that, then delete them. You can ask us to delete them sooner at any time, and if you think we have handled them badly you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

England at launch. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are regulated separately, so they are not covered at launch.

We have not launched. Dr Quick will be a CQC-registered clinical service at launch, and no consultation happens before that registration is in place. Registering interest now puts you in the first group we talk to.