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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...