Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 31 October 2022.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate her Department has made of the proportion of social care providers that use only paper-based records.
In 2021, ‘People at the Heart of Care’ set out a 10-year vision to reform adult social care, recognising the role of technology in improving the quality and safety of care. It committed to increasing the adoption of digital social care records by Care Quality Commission (CQC)-registered providers to 80% by March 2024.
In June 2022, we announced £25 million for care providers via integrated care systems to adopt these technologies. The CQC’s data from August 2022 shows that approximately 50% of care providers currently have a digital social care record, an increase from 45% in March 2022. Based on local delivery plans, we are on schedule to meet the interim target of 60% adoption by March 2023.
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