To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has plans for a nationwide platform for patient data in health and social care settings.
Answered on
21 July 2022
While there are no specific plans, NHS England intends to procure a Federated Data Platform, which will be a system of connected platforms placed in individual National Health Service organisations. This aims to provide each trust and integrated care system with a platform for operational planning, care coordination and population health management. These platforms will adhere to the principles and requirements of Secure Data Environments, which provide approved users with access to analyse data. Organisations can control the data which users can access, the functionalities available to conduct analysis and the information which users can remove.
In ‘Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data’ published in June 2022, we committed to implementing Secure Data Environments as the default way to access NHS health and social care data for research and analysis.