Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Royal College of General Practitioners report entitled Fit for the Future GP Pressures 2023, published in March 2023, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of that report's findings on aptitudes on (a) the adequacy of IT suppliers and support services in general practice and (b) the ability of IT systems used in primary care to exchange information with secondary care.

Our plans for general practice (GP) IT were outlined in A Plan for Digital Health and Social Care, published June 2022.

We remain committed to ensuring that modern, integrated, flexible and user-friendly digital systems are available to support the evolving needs of patients and GPs through the GP IT Operating Model and Digital Care Services platform.

Shared Care Records have been implemented across all 42 integrated care systems in England, connecting National Health Service trusts and GPs. Our goal is for all constituent organisations of an integrated care system to be connected to an integrated life-long health and care record by 2024, enabled by core national capabilities, local health records and shared care records, giving individuals, their approved caregivers and their care teams the ability to view and contribute to the record.