Thousands of patients across England and Wales face potential disruption accessing GP services online after a major supplier of practice websites entered administration.
GP surgeries in Gloucestershire, London and Wales have reported problems after Silicon Practice, which creates GP websites and digital tools, entered administration.
NHS England said fewer than 500 GP practices use Silicon’s FootFall dashboard and that fewer than 10 per cent of GP practices are affected.
In an email to patients seen by this newspaper, one of the affected surgeries, Wimbledon Medical Practice, which has more than 10,000 registered patients, said its website had become unavailable after the website provider
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