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Medical Records: Databases

Asked by Freddie van MierloLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 27 March 2025UIN 40936

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of trends in the level of NHS trusts having electronic records.

Answered by Karin Smyth

No assessment of these trends has been made. Currently, we have achieved a 91% rollout of Electronic Patient Records (EPR), with work underway to provide tailored support to the remaining 19 trusts that do not yet have an EPR.

The programme is forecasting to achieve 96% EPR coverage by the programme’s end in March 2026, with the remaining 4% of trusts having advanced in their plans for an EPR.

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