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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 June 2025

Debate

NHS and Social Care: Joint Working

Contribution

The noble Baroness is quite right in her observations on the need to move to much better services here. First, on her point about discharge letters, appointment letters and so on, the Government have already committed funding and direct support to local areas that are not currently providing what we might call 2025-standard communication. Noble Lords will see a considerable change; some trusts are already doing that and doing it excellently, but we want to bring that up. On the noble Baroness’s specific point, I can tell her that we are continuing to encourage the use of digital social care records to make sure that the individual’s medical record is there. Over 85% of people who draw on registered care now have a digital social care record. I hope that I have gone a bit further than the noble Baroness was asking.

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