Oral Question·Foreign and Commonwealth Office
“If he will make a statement on his departmental responsibilities.”
Tabled: 30 October 2019Answered: 5 November 2019
Asked by
Sir Desmond Swayne
Conservative — New Forest West
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Secondary Care (Karin Smyth)
The single patient record will give clinicians timely access to a single trusted record so that decisions can be made more efficiently, avoiding duplication, allowing them to spend more time with patients. The system makes all information on a patient accessible in a single place and will allow the sharing of patient data among different settings, as my hon. Friend outlines, and provide more flexibility in where services are made available.