The NHS Long-Term Plan includes some challenging ambitions for digitising the NHS, including the target that all trusts reach a ’core level of digitisation’ by 2024. However, the NAO found that there was no digital implementation plan which set out how digitally enabled care will be rolled out across the NHS and its plans were underdeveloped. For example, there was no clear schedule for achieving interoperability, which risks making interoperability harder to achieve in the future.25 We asked...

The NHS Long-Term Plan includes some challenging ambitions for digitising the NHS, including the target that all trusts reach a ’core level of digitisation’ by 2024. However, the NAO found that there was no digital implementation plan which set out how digitally enabled care will be rolled out across the NHS and its plans were underdeveloped. For example, there was no clear schedule for achieving interoperability, which risks making interoperability harder to achieve in the future.25 We asked NHSX how long it expected it to take to achieve interoperability between systems. NHSX was unable to provide a timeframe for achieving complete interope Type: conclusion | Number: 15 | Response status: not_addressed