Committee questions NHS about healthcare data to assist older people

The Committee will ask the Head of NHSX and officials from NHS Digital how the NHS uses the vast amount of data that it gathers, in order to plan healthcare services.

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http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2019/ageing-healthcare-data-nhs/http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/lords-select/science-and-technology-committee/news-parliament-2019/ageing-healthcare-data-nhs/
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
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National Health Service, NHS Scotland, NHSX, Decades, United Kingdom, NHS Connecting for Health, Department of Health and Social Care
Summary
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  • The Committee will ask the Head of NHSX and officials from NHS Digital how the NHS uses the vast amount of data that it gathers, in order to plan healthcare services.
  • The Committee will also hear from the National Data Guardian about the safeguards that govern the use of this patient data.
  • To what extent is healthcare data from the NHS shared outside the NHS, and what are the challenges associated with this?
  • data from medical monitoring devices and from commercial wearables) and data collected in the NHS?
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