Patient data

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GP at desk
7 June 2021

BMA and RCGP issue joint letter to NHS Digital over GPDPR programme

The pair have issued a joint letter to NHS Digital to express concerns about the General Practice Data for Planning
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Health Secretary Matt Hancock inside 10 Downing Street. Credit: 10 Downing Street
18 March 2021

Hancock to look at creating ‘consistent cloud platform’ for patient data

Matt Hancock has said he is looking into creating ā€œa consistent data platformā€ which would see patient data being separated
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Mustafa Suleyman Deepmind
5 June 2020

NHSX denies conflict of interest over DeepMind founder’s advisory role

Mustafa Suleyman was approached by NHSX to help the organisation explore how best to collect patient data, including the use
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Interoperability
23 March 2020

US passes interoperability rules giving patients more data control

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has passed two rules that will help patients have more control
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Too doctors looking at a computer screen
11 March 2020

Patient data now viewable across all Welsh health boards

Healthcare professionals in Wales can now access digital patient information across all health board organisational boundaries, NWIS has announced.
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12 February 2020

Data strategies must be designed around patient input, report finds

Patients must feel a sense of agency and control over what happens to their data and health data must always
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11 February 2020

Patient data sent to global drug companies ‘may not be anonymous’

Patients whose medical information is of particular interest to international companies have already been identified, senior NHS officials claimed.
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19 December 2019

NHS ‘risks repeat of care.data in talks to commercialise medical records’

Secretive NHS talks to discuss the potential to commercialise 65 million patients' records risked jeopardising patient trust, Professor Joe McDonald
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Silhouettes and binary code patient data
26 November 2019

NHS staff ‘uncomfortable with tech giants handling patient data’

A survey from Sensyne Health found that just 17% of 1,027 healthcare staff would trust big tech companies to handle
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5 August 2019

Eight organisations join UK Health Data Research Alliance

The Alliance aims to make health data more accessible and improve data quality in order to build a more innovative
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