Medical Records: Information Sharing
Commons · Question 3489 · Tabled 30 Aug 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 9 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Julia Buckley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the potential impact of the lack of shared IT systems between primary, secondary and mental healthcare on (a) patients and (b) healthcare prof
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 9 Sep 2024
No specific assessment has been made. Shared care records are in place in all integrated care boards, allowing information from general practice and acute settings to be shared for direct care.The Frontline Digitisation programme is working to improve the...