Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to facilitate the sharing of data between different health and social care services.

High quality data needs to be securely available to inform decisions about care. The Government has supported five Local Health and Care Record Exemplars which are a partnership of health and social care organisations that come together to create a shared care record, allowing clinicians and professionals real-time access to their patients’ records. These five areas are leading the way but it is our aim that local shared records will be the norm across the country.