Hospital & Healthcare Management June 15, 2022
With the unveiling of the new health data strategy, patients in England will now have better access to GP records via the NHS App, as well as more control over how their information is consumed. The Department of Health and Social Care has published Data Saves Lives: Reshaping Health and Social Care with Data, which includes promises to streamline data exchange opt-out processes and improve access to GP information in the NHS App by November 2022.
Sajid Javid, the health secretary, announced the strategy at London Tech Week’s HealthTech Summit, saying that trusted research environments, a type of secure data surroundings, would be formed to enable better scientists to safely access linked NHS data whilst also keeping high levels of...