Source · Select Committees · Public Accounts Committee
Recommendation 2
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Although many service personnel live in poor quality Single Living Accommodation and are dissatisfied with...
Conclusion
Although many service personnel live in poor quality Single Living Accommodation and are dissatisfied with their accommodation and with the maintenance and repairs service, the Department appeared surprisingly complacent about resolving this long-term issue. There is considerable variability in the standard of accommodation, with more than one-third of personnel in Single Living Accommodation living in the lowest-grade accommodation as of 31 October
Government Response
Acknowledged
HM Government
Acknowledged
agree with the conclusion that DHSC and NHS Digital took too long to identify all clinically extremely vulnerable people. Given the data available at the time, and the novelty of shielding policy, NHS Digital, DHSC, and frontline clinicians worked as quickly as possible to identify CEV people at the start of the pandemic. However, the government is committed to learning the lessons from this process to improve how national data is used to identify at risk groups in the future. 2.3 Work is already underway on this. NHS Digital has developed a strategic national GP dataset alongside the profession. This will allow faster access to GP information that will be more regularly updated and more complete than current data sources. NHSX and NHS Digital are also working together on plans to digitise the health service and to deliver comprehensive shared care records. 2.4 The above developments will be set out in a data strategy for health and social care that the government will shortly publish in draft. The strategy will contain a number of additional commitments reducing or removing structural, technical and cultural barriers, to enable quick and secure access to patient data where appropriate.