Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has had discussions with digital and social media companies on information sharing to support patients and people in the community.
NHS England has created a standard for health content targeted at digital and social media companies. It has worked with Google to ensure that the top 300 conditions are surfaced as knowledge panels, syndicating the content from NHS.UK into their search engine. It has also worked with Amazon to surface this content via its Alexa service. Work continues with other platforms to provide equitable access to assured content.
The purpose of these activities has been to address misinformation and disinformation and provide citizens with clinically assured content from reputable sources.