NHS: Digital Technology

(asked on 8th July 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the £4.4 billion capital investment in digital infrastructure will be allocated by programme.


Answered by
Karin Smyth Portrait
Karin Smyth
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 16th July 2026

£4.5 billion of technology, digital, and data capital investment has been allocated to programmes and live services over the four-year 2025 Spending Review period from 2026/27 to 2029/30. The following table shows a breakdown of this spend by programme or service:

Programme/services

Spend (millions)

Establishing Operational Excellence

£65

Federated Data Platform

£204

Transforming the Patient Experience

£1,015

Transforming and Connecting Care

£440

Frontline Productivity

£801

Core Infrastructure

£337

One Digital

£2

Cyber Improvement

£36

Health Data Research Service

£169

Digital Diagnostics Capability

£339

Live Services

£1,059

Total

£4,467

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