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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 14 January 2026
Debate
Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillContribution
What we have learned so far is that our first pilot with Wigan proved that direct connectivity to PDS is possible and improved the look-up of NHS numbers and the match rate by 10 percentage points compared to manual processes. But it was resource intensive and took almost nine months to work through information governance activity, which I know noble Lords will recognise is important.
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