PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Unmanned Air Vehicles (19 October 2020)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to fund nationwide roll-out of medical drone technologies.

Asked by:
Jamie Stone (Liberal Democrat)

Answer

The NHS Long Term Plan is bringing new technologies into the National Health Service to improve patient care and save lives, and we continue to support testing of innovations such as convenient, faster technology to help frontline staff to give people world-leading treatment. This includes supporting NHS staff through the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, run by the Accelerated Access Collaborative, to develop their own innovative ideas, for example exploring the potential use of autonomous drone delivery systems within healthcare.


Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
3 November 2020

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