Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she is taking steps to increase health literacy for services to support people at the end of life.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Health Service website and the NHS App are our main digital tools available to citizens, to support them in accessing services and making decisions about their health. Clinicians across the NHS also support patients’ health literacy by providing clear information, increasing patients’ knowledge, and sharing decision-making on their care.
Additionally, through the Voluntary Community Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Programme, the Department, NHS England, and the UK Health Security Agency work together with VCSE organisations to drive transformation of health and care systems, promote equality, address health inequalities, and help people, families, and communities to achieve and maintain wellbeing. The current projects include increasing health literacy through intersectional considerations at the end of life, digital inclusion, and barriers for those likely to be in the last year of life without a life-limiting diagnosis.
Written Evidence May. 23 2024
Inquiry: Food, Diet and ObesityFound: In this capacity I also consult and research for UNICEF and the World Health Organization and civil
Apr. 26 2024
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Asked by: Briggs, Miles (Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party - Lothian)
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what investment it plans to make to support the transformation of NHS IT services, and how much will be made available to each NHS board for any such work.
Answered by Gray, Neil - Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care
The Scottish Government continues to protect investment in digital within health services, as shown in the published budget. Planning remains underway to fully assess the impact on planned activity for 20242-5 that takes into account the considerable financial challenges facing the Scottish Government in the forthcoming financial year.
Rather than provide specific financial allocations to NHS Boards for the transformation of NHS IT Services, the Scottish Government provides funding to support investment programmes which are aligned to our Digital Health and Care Strategy. We will shortly publish our updated Delivery Plan for Digital Health & Care. This will confirm delivery priorities for the year ahead using the investment available.
Apr. 03 2024
Source Page: VTQ information hub 2023 to 2024: key dates and deadlinesFound: EndDate AdditionalDescription OCN London OCNLR Level 3 Certificate in IT User Skills (ITQ) 600/9398/5 Digital
Asked by: Wes Streeting (Labour - Ilford North)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she expects every child to have a personal child health record.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Every baby is allocated a National Health Service number as soon as their birth is notified by the attending midwife. This is linked to the NHS number of the birth mother. Once registered at a general practice (GP) surgery, a baby will also have a GP record. This is the first digital health record which most babies will receive, and is linked to their existing NHS number.
The aim of the Digital Personal Child Health Record programme is not to create a new, standalone record, but to use existing infrastructure to facilitate better coordination between existing records. This will support families in accessing the information they need when they need it, and for professionals to offer more informed, joined-up care.
We have improved access to relevant content and information about maternity, early years, and Start for Life, via the NHS App, and made it easier for families to register a new baby digitally at a GP practice. Over 2000 practices have already adopted the solution, which consists of an online registration service and a new paper form. GPs will be contractually required to adopt and offer both formats, from October 2024.
We have also prepared the launch of a pilot programme which will allow anyone with parental responsibility to apply digitally for access to their child’s record, for any child up to 13 years old. This has now launched in 70 GPs in England, and will make it much easier for parents to manage a child's digital health record. For example, once rolled out across England, this will enable the parent or carer to view their baby’s digital GP record, book appointments, and request prescriptions, all via the NHS App.
Laid - 29 Apr 2024 In Force Not stated
Regulation 2 amends regulation 24 of the National Health Service (Performers Lists) (England) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/335), which provided exemptions to the requirement that a medical practitioner must be a general medical practitioner included in the medical performers list in order to perform primary medical services. It amends the exemption …
Found: National Health Service (Primary Medical Services and Performers Lists) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Jan. 29 2024
Source Page: Handling of freedom of information request number 202200290584: FOI releaseFound: Nil return from Digital Health and Care.
Apr. 26 2024
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Asked by: Chi Onwurah (Labour - Newcastle upon Tyne Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to attract and retain workers with skills in artificial intelligence into the NHS workforce.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
We provide targeted upskilling and training for clinical staff through the Fellows in Clinical AI programme, and are developing specialised roles within our Digital, Data, and Technology workforce. Furthermore, the AI and Digital Healthcare Technologies Capability framework outlines the necessary capabilities for artificial intelligence (AI) across the National Health Service workforce.
We have also set out core foundations to drive AI-related education training in two published reports that focus on understanding and developing the healthcare workforce’s confidence in AI. These include developing fundamentals for the full workforce and advanced training, where it is required. The reports on understanding and developing confidence in AI are available, respectively, at the following links: