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HANSARDCovid-19: NHS ApplicationMy Lords, I greatly regret that the noble Baroness, Lady Deech, had to make that journey. That is a troubling thing for her to have had to do. I reassure her that 89% of the…01 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS ApplicationMy Lords, I cannot answer the noble Baroness’s question. There is a very good reason: the privacy arrangements of the app mean that we do not know who has downloaded it. This…01 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: NHS ApplicationMy Lords, version 1 does not have an international component to it, but that is something that we would seek to develop. I emphasise that the app in its current form is very much…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, the department is very clear that the blanket use of DNACPR and DNR is unacceptable. An agreement to a DNACPR is an individual decision and should involve the person…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, it is completely unacceptable for any group of people to have blanket DNACPR provisions apply to them. The adult social care winter plan published on 18 September…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesThe noble Baroness is entirely right. The Covid epidemic has shone a spotlight on the awful arrangements around end of life at a time when contagious disease presents a threat to…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, I completely agree with the noble Baroness’s sentiments—so does the department and so do the Government. We have noted what happened during the Covid epidemic. The CQC…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesThe department is aware of the Queen’s Nursing Institute report on training and, although the majority of responses were positive, it raised questions about the training of, in…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, NHSE&I is currently engaged with stakeholders, including people with lived experience, to develop better information for patients and to understand whether procedures…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesThe noble Baroness makes a fair point. Of course, someone who walks healthy from a hospital need not have such a notice left on their clinical records. I will admit that I do not…01 Oct 2020HANSARDHospitals and Nursing Homes: Do Not Resuscitate NoticesMy Lords, the benefits of living wills are enormous, both for those entering the last stages of their life and for their loved ones. It is something that we are keen to encourage.…01 Oct 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingMy Lords, the ultimate aim of the app is to break the chain of transmission. That is done through a number of ways. One is to provide a proximity alert for those who spend time…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingPerhaps I may reassure the noble Lord that the NHS app is usable by nine out of 10 smartphones. On average, 87% of Apple and Android phones can download the NHS app. The Apple…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingThe results of the Newham trial are analytical rather than about the privacy assessment, which has already been published. What we learned from Newham was that security concerns…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingMy Lords, we are looking carefully at the Apple express system. It does not contain the substantial investment in the algorithm from the Alan Turing Institute that gives our own…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingMy Lords, engineers at the Department for Health and Social Care are undertaking an initial assessment of the Exposure Notifications Express capability in consultation with Apple.…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingI reassure the noble Baroness that the use of non-official QR codes is rejected by the app. I have had personal experience of this. We have had downloaded 600,000 of the official…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingMy Lords, I completely understand the concerns of those who may be struggling to download the app but I reassure the noble Baroness that the current app is supported by iOS…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingMy Lords, there is no particular target where the app becomes relevant or non-relevant. Some 14 million downloads to date is a remarkable number and the app is already proving…30 Sept 2020HANSARDCovid-19: TrackingMy Lords, the point of the app is to support our tracing efforts and provide security among those who are in areas that are not socially distanced in order to alert them when they…30 Sept 2020