Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the (a) number and (b) compatibility of IT systems used by general practitioners.

There are currently three Foundation Systems available to general practitioners in England: EMIS Web GP (Egton Medical Information Systems Ltd); SystmOne (The Phoenix Partnership(Leeds) Ltd); and Vision 3 (InPractice Systems Ltd t/a Cegedim Healthcare Solutions). EMIS Web GP and SystmOne products fully meet the GP2GP standard and can be used to share patient medical records between general practitioners (GPs) when a patient registers at a different practice. Vision 3 is expected to fully meet the standard by the end of April 2022.

As of March 2022, there are 6,505 GPs within England, with 60% using the EMIS Web GP system, 39% using SystmOne, and 1% using Vision 3.