questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help improve levels of public understanding of how (a) personal medical data can be and (b) people can opt out of having their data used for health research.
answerText: Ensuring public understanding of the use of health data is critical to building trust. The Department and NHS England co-fund an independent organisation called Understanding Patient Data which provides objective information about how patient data is used...
heading: Medical Records: Data Protection