Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) support people with using digital NHS services and (b) protect the data of people who use those services.

NHSX are working with Digital Unite, a social enterprise working with organisations and supporting people to achieve digital inclusion, on a platform for people to use digital technology for health purposes by becoming familiar with the NHS App and NHS.UK. To date, there are seven programmes across England supporting people to use technology to support their health.

There are several safeguards in place such as legislation, security standards and toolkits, independent advisory bodies and a national data opt-out, which ensure that data is used in a safe, secure and lawful way.