Medical Records: Data Protection

(asked on 18th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the report of the Information Commissioner on the trial of a new app using patient data at the Royal Free Hospital, what the implications of the recommendations and conclusions of that report are for his Department's policies on the use of patient data and NHS contracts with private firms.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 21st July 2017

We have published the Government’s response to the National Data Guardian’s review of data security, consent and opt-outs and the Care Quality Commission’s review ‘Safe data, safe care’. This provides information to the National Health Service and adult social care on sharing data in lawful, safe and secure ways.

The forthcoming Data Protection Bill will consider appropriate safeguards for the use of new technologies to process personal data.

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