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 use new technologies to improve patient care.

The Government’s plans for using new technologies to improve patient care are set out in Chapter 8, titled Powering transformation: innovation to drive healthcare reform, of the Fit for the Future: 10-Year Health Plan for England, which is available at the following link:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6888a0b1a11f859994409147/fit-for-the-future-10-year-health-plan-for-england.pdf

The chapter sets out five “big bets” for technological innovation: data to deliver impact; artificial intelligence to drive productivity; genomics and predictive analysis; wearables to make care ‘real time’; and robotics to support precision.

It also sets out how effective new technologies will be assessed, funded, and adopted more consistently across the National Health Service.