Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent assessment of the potential merits of using digital technology to help patients stay safe in their homes; and if he provide funding for the provision of that digital technology.

People at the Heart of Care, the Government’s white paper on social care reform, committed to launch a scheme to use promising care technologies to help people live independently in their own homes for longer.

The Department is working with all 42 integrated care systems (ICSs) across the country, to support the adoption of technology for social care. To date, 13 ICSs are trialling technologies to support people to remain independent in their own homes, and this support will be scaled further across the country next financial year.