Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 2075

NHS: Cybersecurity

Tabled: 29 July 2024
Answered: 2 September 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) modernise NHS IT systems and (b) protect them from cyber attacks.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The National Health Service has made significant progress in digitising and modernising their services in recent years. Notably, we are on course to ensure that 93% of NHS trusts have an electronic patient record (EPR) system by the end of this year, redu...
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