Social Care

Baroness Stedman-Scott Excerpts

Tuesday 24th June 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

The noble Baroness has made the case for us all. As we know, one of the main pillars of changing the health system we have is to move from sickness to prevention. I believe you can transfer that logic and thinking to this area. We have fantastic examples of different neighbourhoods having stepped up to the plate, working to bridge the gap between the health service and local social care providers and working with carers as well. It is critical that we look at the examples of good practice and work out how we can roll them out so that we can make the shift that needs to be made.

[Baroness Stedman-Scott (Con)]

My Lords, in January the Government announced that they will develop a shared digital platform to allow up-to-date medical information to be shared between the NHS and care staff. How much progress has been made in developing this digital platform?

[Baroness Blake of Leeds (Lab)]

It will come as no surprise to the noble Baroness that I cannot give her the detail on that question, but I will be very happy to get back to her with an update on where we have got to. Obviously, the whole area of digitalisation is another of the pillars in moving the health service forward. So many people collect data but do not use it. We are very good at harvesting it but not actually analysing it and working out how we can use it to best effect. But it is one of the commitments.