Question follow-through · 113418

General Practitioners: ICT

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans are in the GP IT roadmap to allow for the safe handover of care at the end of each working day to out-of-hours providers.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
12 Feb 2026
Target answer date
23 Feb 2026
Answer
5 Mar 2026 · 21 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Feb 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans are in the GP IT roadmap to allow for the safe handover of care at the end of each working day to out-of-hours providers.

  2. 23 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 5 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    As part of the Government’s National Health Service 10‑Year Health Plan commitment to deliver a single patient record, we are supporting healthcare professionals to access important medical information about patients by investing £20 million in the Connec...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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