Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much of the funding allocated to support the roll-out of electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems across the NHS will be allocated during the financial year 2019-2020.

For the financial year 2019-20, £20 million of funding has been allocated to support the implementation of Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administrations Systems (EPMA) in provider trusts.

Allocations (between trusts and between systems) are based on a bidding process as usual. NHS Improvement have already received some bids for EPMA funding, which were of a high quality. Trusts have been informed that decisions can be expected in summer.