Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing minimum IT standards across the NHS.
We are currently determining how relevant standards in the National Health Service could be enforced. Legislation to enforce technical standards in healthcare providers was originally defined in Section 250 of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. These powers have been strengthened in the Health and Care Act 2022 to ensure that all health and adult social care providers comply with standards published as information standards notices.