Current status: Answered by Neil Gray on 15 October 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its recent announcement regarding the MyCare.scot app, whether any interoperability barriers of the different IT systems have been overcome.
It has been a critical aim of the Scottish Government over a number of years to improve interoperability within health and social care. We recently passed the Care Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, which includes the introduction of mandatory information standards across systems to support this aim. Details of the legislation can be found here: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/9/enacted.
I can confirm that we are currently looking at the proposed secondary legislation associated with the Act. This has included the process of setting up appropriate governance for this work.
The Scottish Government and partners actively seek to address interoperability challenges on an on-going basis. This includes work to ensure that key NHS systems will be interoperable with MyCare.scot.