Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between George Freeman and Anne Marie Morris

Tuesday 5th January 2016 Commons Chamber

[George Freeman]

That is an important point. It is up to each hospital to implement digitalisation in its own way, but we are putting in place a series of steps to make sure that all parts of the NHS are supported and encouraged in the drive for delivery of a paperless NHS by 2020. In the new year, we are requiring the clinical commissioning group digital index, which will measure the digitalisation of all health economies, and we are launching a review of best practice. We are absolutely committed to driving digitalisation so that the 21st-century NHS is not running on paper and cardboard.

[Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot) (Con)]

10. What plans he has to publish a rural healthcare strategy.