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Debate between George Freeman and Anne Marie Morris
Tuesday 5th January 2016
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George Freeman
That is an important point. It is up to each hospital to implement digitalisation in its own way, but we are putting in place a series of steps to make sure that all parts of the NHS are supported and encouraged in the drive for delivery of a paperless NHS by 2020. In the new year, we are requiring the clinical commissioning group digital index, which will measure the digitalisation of all health economies, and we are launching a review of best practice. We are absolutely committed to driving digitalisation so that the 21st-century NHS is not running on paper and cardboard.
Anne Marie Morris (Newton Abbot) (Con)
10. What plans he has to publish a rural healthcare strategy.