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Medical Records: Data Protection

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 157349, tabled on 21 April 2022

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the recommendations of the Goldacre Review, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of creating a single, national data controller for all NHS records; and what steps he taking to (a) recruit people with technical data skills and knowledge to senior roles in the NHS and (b) train staff in senior roles in the NHS in the basics of data analysis.

Answered on

28 April 2022

It has not proved possible to respond to the hon. Member in the time available before Prorogation.