Technology in health and social care

Guidance and regulation

Digital mental health technology: qualification and classification
- Guidance
- 13 February 2025
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Software and artificial intelligence (AI) as a medical device
- Guidance
- 3 February 2025
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
UKHSA's Vaccine Development and Evaluation Centre (VDEC)
- Detailed guide
- 10 January 2025
- UK Health Security Agency
Crafting an intended purpose in the context of Software as a Medical Device (SaMD)
- Guidance
- 22 March 2023
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Digital and data-driven health and care technology
- Guidance
- 19 January 2021
- Department of Health and Social Care

Digital mental health technology: user and public perspectives
- 3 May 2024
- Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
- Research
Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis
- 7 April 2022
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report
Evidence review for adult social care reform
- 1 December 2021
- Department of Health and Social Care and Government Office for Science
- Research
Online services in general practice: patterns of use and barriers to uptake
- 30 September 2021
- Closed organisation: Public Health England
- Research
Using information technology to improve the NHS
- 7 September 2016
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Independent report

Data access policy update: proposed draft
- 12 October 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 23 June 2023
Telecare National Action Plan: protecting telecare users throughout the digital phone switchover
- 11 February 2025
- Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Policy paper
Data access policy update
- 12 October 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Telecare stakeholder plan: analogue to digital switchover, August 2023 update
- 30 August 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper
Cyber security strategy for health and social care: 2023 to 2030
- 22 March 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Policy paper

National Data Guardian 2023-2024 report
- 5 December 2024
- National Data Guardian
- Corporate report
National Data Guardian Panel meeting minutes, 2023
- 3 April 2024
- National Data Guardian
- Transparency
National Data Guardian 2022-2023 report
- 9 January 2024
- National Data Guardian
- Corporate report
Assistive technology research and development work: 2022 to 2023
- 21 December 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Corporate report
Assistive technology research and development work: 2021 to 2022
- 20 November 2023
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Corporate report