
Watch this short video to give you an idea of how your video consultation will work.
We are now able to offer easy to join video appointments for some of our services, allowing us to care for you anywhere, via a PC, laptop, tablet, iPad or smartphone.
Your video appointment will take place using a Google Chrome or Apple Safari web browser and some software called Attend Anywhere. It provides an easy and secure way for you and your healthcare professional to hold pre-arranged face to face appointments, without the need to travel.
NHS England has released a quick guide to video appointments to help you, and your patients, prepare for and undertaken video consultations.
Guidance and resources for NHS patients and clinicians to support online consultations are available to anyone considering using video technology as part of an NHS consultation. They are designed to be relevant to any technology or clinical setting.
The guides have been developed as a collaboration between Barts Health NHS Trust and Design Science with the IRIHS Group led by Professor Trish Greenhalgh and Professor Sara Shaw.
You can talk to your healthcare professional with the same level of privacy you would usually experience during a face to face appointment. The video appointments are not recorded and none of your details are stored once the appointment has ended.
Each video appointment takes place in a private video call room which can only be entered by authorised healthcare professionals and the calls are encrypted.
Please also see the how-to videos and guides on this page.
Please do not enter a waiting room unless you have a pre-arranged appointment or have been contacted directly by one of our services.
A 20-minute video call is expected to use around 230 MB of data on a smartphone, or around 460 MB on a desktop or laptop computer that is tethered to your phone.
No data is used while you are in the waiting room.
Check with your mobile phone provider if you are not sure what your data limits are.
If we cannot get you back into the video appointment, we will contact you and complete your appointment by phone (using the number you provide when joining the online waiting room).
Visit the Attend Anywhere website using a Chrome or Safari browser and look for the test call button. You will also find some troubleshooting information on that page to help you.