Health Services: Information Sharing

(asked on 9th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans she has to ensure accessibility and communication needs are recorded once and shared consistently across NHS services through the Single Patient Record and the Reasonable Adjustment Digital Flag.


Answered by
James Frith Portrait
James Frith
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026

This is something that should routinely happen across all National Health Service digital services, via the Reasonable Adjustment Flag process, details of which can be found at the link below and which will be rolled out as a core element of each new digital service:

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/patient-flags-service/reasonable-adjustment-flag

Reticulating Splines