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Medical Records: Digital Technology

Commons · Question 98012 · Tabled 8 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 15 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the digital social care record system is designed and maintained to national security standards.

Answer

Answered by Stephen Kinnock, 15 Dec 2025

The Department has not designed a single digital social care record (DSCR) system. Rather, through the Digitising Social Care (DiSC) programme which ended in April 2025, the Government set standards for DSCRs and created a list of solutions that have been...