Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the (a) cost and capability of the in-house electronic health records system developed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and (b) feasibility of replicating that system throughout the NHS.

There has not been any formal assessment of the cost and capability of the in-house electronic health records system in use in the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust or the feasibility of replicating such a system across the National Health Service in England. The availability of electronic health records is a key element of providing digitally enabled services and we expect all trusts to implement such systems. It is a local decision on how best to achieve this, taking into account the digital systems already in place and the capacity and capability available to implement a solution.