Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate she has made of the number and proportion of NHS trusts that do not have a fully-functioning system of digital patient records as of 15 November 2023.

At present, there are twenty-one National Health Service secondary care trusts in England that do not have an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system, a proportion of 10%. Of these trusts, four are developing business cases for EPR systems, twelve trusts are actively procuring an EPR solution, with the remaining five trusts implementing and embedding procured systems.

The Government's 2023 mandate for NHS England set a target for 90% of NHS trusts to have an EPR system in place by December 2023, which has now been met. By March 2026, the ambition remains that complete coverage of all NHS trusts will be achieved.