Telemedicine in the United Kingdom: From a Patchwork of Services and Regulations to a Connected Health and E-health Revolution

This article provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the adoption and regulation of telehealth and telemedicine services in the United Kingdom, and specifically with reference to its National Health Service (“NHS”). The discussion and analysis reveal waxing and waning ambitions on the part of the government over the past century, resulting in a patchwork of telemedicine services and light touch and disparate laws and regulations. More recently, however, and in the wake of Covid-19,