Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2014, Official Report, column 520W, on telemedicine, when NHS England will issue the first in its regular surveys on the number of individuals who benefit from telehealth services; to whom the survey will be issued; when the survey will report and be published; how it will be analysed; and how often it will be repeated.

The Technology Enabled Care Services survey is conducted and published by the Telecare Services Association (TSA). The most recent survey was issued by the TSA on 2 July 2014 and the TSA expects to conduct this survey on a quarterly basis. NHS England will use the data collected through these surveys to inform the Technology Enabled Care Services programme.