Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 3489

Medical Records: Information Sharing

Tabled: 30 August 2024
Answered: 9 September 2024

Question

Julia Buckley

LabourShrewsbury

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

Karin Smyth
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...

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