NHS: ICT

(asked on 27th June 2018) - View Source

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 tackle computer flaws that have led to delays in the NHS.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 6th July 2018

NHS Digital maintain the national infrastructure critical to the day-to-day operation of the National Health Service. This includes the NHS Spine, which provides the technical backbone on which many services depend. NHS Digital undertake reviews where high severity incidents occur for national systems they run. Locally individual NHS organisations are responsible for the management and governance of the IT systems they use.

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