Data Strategy: Patients to get easier access to medical data through NHS App

Patients are set to get easier access to their medication lists and care plans through the NHS App under the government’s new data strategy.

New requirements for data sharing across the entire health and care system are also set to come into place, with new legislation to be introduced to require all adult social care providers to provide information about the services they fund.

Published today (June 22), the NHSX draft strategy ‘Data Saves Lives: Reshaping health and social care with data’, aims to capitalise on the work undertaken using data during the pandemic to improve health and care services.

In a bid to establish openness, the government committed to publishing the first transparency statement setting out how...