Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 March 2023 to Question 157667, what technologies his Department is piloting for social care; and in which ICS areas.

The Digitising Social Care programme has made over £35 million available to integrated care systems (ICS) to support the testing and scaling of care technologies that can improve the quality and safety of care and help people live independently at home for longer.

The programme is engaged with all 42 ICSs in England and 41 ICSs have received funding to deploy digital social care records and other care technologies that meet local needs. For example, sensor-based falls prevention and detection technologies that can reduce falls and other technologies that can support people to live more independently in their own home.