Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of interoperable digital patient records to improve patient access to GP appointments at practices other than their registered surgery.

Enlivio and TPP, which provide most general practice (GP) IT systems, already have the ability for clinicians to view patient information across different systems.

Anyone may register as a temporary patient with a GP surgery with which they are not registered and make appointments, for up to three months, for example, if away from home.