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NHS Trusts: Software

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) support NHS trusts with software needs and (b) unify software across NHS trusts.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
3 Mar 2026
Target answer date
5 Mar 2026
Answer
19 Mar 2026 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to (a) support NHS trusts with software needs and (b) unify software across NHS trusts.

  2. 5 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 19 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    NHS England supports National Health Service trusts with software needs in many ways, including through documentation, guides, support, a developer community, application programming interfaces, and mandatory standards.NHS England is unifying software acr...

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