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Medical Records: Children

Asked by Ben ColemanLabourDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 26 March 2025UIN 39379

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to implement the Digital Redbook nationally.

Answered by Karin Smyth

We remain committed to transforming the way we deliver healthcare for parents and children and supporting the best start in life; digitisation of records is a key enabler of this.

The Department is working closely with officials in NHS England to ensure that plans for digitising the red book align with wider, ambitious plans for digitisation of patient records across the National Health Service. This will mean we deliver the benefits of a seamless experience for families as they access and manage their own health records and those of their children through the NHS App. Further information will be available in due course on the measures we are taking to deliver digital records for children.

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