Question follow-through · 65939
Medical Records: Power Failures
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS has made an assessment of the level of the resilience of digital health records systems to prolonged power outages during electricity system stress events.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 15 Jul 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS has made an assessment of the level of the resilience of digital health records systems to prolonged power outages during electricity system stress events.
10 Jul 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 Jul 2025
Answer published
In the event of a disruption, the National Health Service maintains business continuity and emergency preparedness arrangements, including fallback systems, and protocols to mitigate the impact on health and patient care.The NHS has long standing measures...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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