Armed Forces: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the full scope is of Project Cortisone.
Answered by Louise Sandher-Jones
The vision for Programme CORTISONE is to deliver a sustainable, integrated, cohesive and enduring information capability to support the delivery of evidence-based medical and dental health and healthcare outputs.
The scope of Programme CORTISONE to March 2028 is outlined below:
- An electronic healthcare record (EHR) capability for Primary healthcare, dentistry, intermediate care and mental health, in fixed overseas locations (FOSL) and deployed (air, land and sea) setting
- An occupational health application capability
- A high-level design and ecosystem for interoperability within MOD and with NHS England, devolved nations and NATO
- Provision of data management for flat files, images and documentation
- Provision for data management and exploitation to support Defence Medical Services (DMS) and Defence Statistics across the DMS and operational data space
- Laboratory Information Management capability in the deployed setting
- Pre-hospital and emergency, trauma and evacuation EHR capability
- Reach back consultations for deployed operations
- Triaging and remote consultations for FOSL
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