Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to GP practices to help with data migration when transitioning to new IT clinical systems.

As independent contractors, individual general practitioner (GP) practices can choose any IT clinical system that best suits their needs from a range of four principal system suppliers approved by NHS Digital.

While NHS Digital is responsible for the accreditation of any IT clinical system chosen by the GP practice, NHS England expects the supplier to assist GP practices with the migration of data from one system to another.