Digital Health February 14, 2024
GP data could be included in the future Federated Data Platform, Secretary of State for Health Victoria Atkins has said.
In remarks last week to the Times Health Summit, reported in healthcareleadernews.com, the health secretary responded to a question about whether GPs would be linked with hospitals on the FDP by saying: “The idea is that we want to absolutely bring this together, I’m very conscious […] there will be understandable concerns raised by some in general practice as to privacy and data security.
“In this day and age we have to address those concerns head on, which by the way we’ve done, I think, with the FDP because we’re putting in that extra layer of checks and...