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 13 February to Question 139217 on Mental Health: Preventive Medicine, what progress NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence have made on the development of a policy framework to assess digital health technologies.

The policy framework clarifying the market pathway for Digital Health Technologies will be published in autumn 2023. Several evaluations, through the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Early Value Assessment (EVA) have now been published, including technologies delivering digitally enabled therapy. A procurement platform has been established, via the London Procurement Partnership, for EVA recommended products.