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Question follow-through · 2075

NHS: Cybersecurity

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) modernise NHS IT systems and (b) protect them from cyber attacks.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
29 Jul 2024
Target answer date
2 Sept 2024
Answer
2 Sept 2024 · 35 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 29 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) modernise NHS IT systems and (b) protect them from cyber attacks.

  2. 2 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    The National Health Service has made significant progress in digitising and modernising their services in recent years. Notably, we are on course to ensure that 93% of NHS trusts have an electronic patient record (EPR) system by the end of this year, redu...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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