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Medical Records: Vulnerable Adults

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of utilising shareable health data to help (a) fire and rescues services and (b) local authorities identify vulnerable residents.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Nov 2025
Target answer date
5 Nov 2025
Answer
11 Nov 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Nov 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the effectiveness of utilising shareable health data to help (a) fire and rescues services and (b) local authorities identify vulnerable residents.

  2. 5 Nov 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 11 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    The Department has not made a formal assessment of using health data in this way but is aware of exploratory work underway in the National Health Service, including in Greater Manchester. This year the Department is working to tackle the underlying barrie...

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