Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to build trust in digital healthcare.

The Government recognises the importance of building trust in digital health systems and how critical this is to retaining public confidence. As part of its 10-Year Health Plan, the Government is providing a digitisation programme that supports National Health Service frontline clinicians and patients in improving outcomes and delivering care efficiently, effectively, and safely across the system.

The Government has also worked with NHS stakeholders and the public to ensure that the changes made respect privacy and confidentiality and maintain trust in the system. To help better understand the public's views, we carried out a series of engagement events, the reports for which were published online.

Our other initiatives include a revised NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit which allows the NHS to assess their performance against national security standards and the development of secure data environments to help ensure that research and analysis requiring NHS data is done in a way that is protected, auditable, and which maintains privacy.

The training of NHS staff so that they are digitally confident and have skills in modern leadership and innovation, is another priority.