Medical Records: Databases
(asked on 11th October 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of NHS trusts do not have electronic patient records in England as of 11 October 2022.
This question was answered on 9th November 2022
There are currently 30 of 211 or 14% of National Health Service secondary care trusts in England without electronic patient records (EPRs). Of these trusts, eight are implementing these records, six are undertaking a procurement and 16 are in definition and business case approvals stages. By December 2023, 90% of NHS trusts should have an EPR in place.