Data Sharing

National data opt-out programme

31/05/202323/05/2018 by Andrew Evans

Friday 25th May 2018 is a momentous day for data protection with the introduction of GDPR. But with your inbox flooded with updated data privacy statements, you may have missed that NHS Digital is launching its national data opt-out programme on the same day, to give patients more control over their data.

This will offer patients and the public the opportunity to make an informed choice about whether they wish their confidential patient information to be used just for their individual care and treatment or also for research and planning purposes. Read More…

Categories Insights Tags Data, Data Sharing, National data opt-out programme, NHS Digital, Privacy

ChilCaldicott

31/05/202307/07/2016 by Graham Head

I don’t know. You wait and wait for an important, much-delayed report to be published and then suddenly, like buses, two come along together.

Yet tempted as I am by the thought of reading and commenting on all seventeen sections and twelve volumes of Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq Inquiry report, I’m more taken by the latest offering from Dame Fiona Caldicott, our National Data Guardian for Health and Care. Read More…

Categories Insights Tags Caldicott Review, care.data, Data Security, Data Sharing, NHS, Risk Stratification

Data Sharing

31/05/202312/02/2015 by Graham Head

It is often said, perhaps more tongue-in-cheek than with real seriousness, that you can tell more about an English person by asking where and what they drink than through any of the glossy market segmentation tools with which we get plagued from time-to-time. Read More…

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