{"id":424506,"date":"2026-02-14T00:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424506\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:51:10","slug":"wes-streeting-opens-up-covid-19-data-trove-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/424506\/","title":{"rendered":"Wes Streeting opens up Covid-19 data trove \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Health and Social Care said the change would \u201ctransform what is possible when it comes to diagnosing, treating and preventing a vast range of diseases like cancer, dementia and arthritis,\u201d and \u201crelieve individual GP practices of the administrative burden\u201d of needing to share each participants\u2019 data individually.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-nhs-dhsc-wes-streeting-set-to-steamroll-doctors-on-opening-up-trove-of-pandemic-era-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> in November that the Joint GP IT Committee, comprising representatives from the British Medical Association (BMA) and Royal College of General Practitioners, had declined to give its blessing to the change amid concerns about potential impact on patient trust.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors&#8217; groups were worried that the patients who donated their data would not be properly notified to get their consent to send the data elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, DHSC maintained that doctors\u2019 groups had been properly consulted. \u201cWe are committed to implementing this direction in line with patients\u2019 explicit consent for their data to be used in research,\u201d a DHSC spokesperson said in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department for Health and Social Care said the change would \u201ctransform what is possible when it comes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[2211,1336,72781,102,59459,2960,547,33413,56,54,55,7747],"class_list":{"0":"post-424506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-data","10":"tag-e-health","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-health-data","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-research","15":"tag-research-and-development","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom","19":"tag-wes-streeting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}