Continuing disquiet on the data front: involve your local Caldicott guardian

I share the concerns expressed by Salisbury about the poor track record of large NHS IT projects.1 I remember the debacle of the NHS Programme for IT all too well. Similarly, the General Practice Data for Planning and Research caused concerns around transparency and communication. This is why confidence in the latest major NHS IT tender, which, as Salisbury says, Palantir is a favourite to win, is not high. More information about Palantir can be found in a recent eyebrow raising BMJ article.2 It is unacceptable that patients’ expressed wishes to withhold their data for reasons other than direct patient care through the national data opt out 3 could be disregarded by future NHS data projects.In case Salisbury has not already done so, she could raise concerns with her practice’s Caldicott guardian and then to her local or regional information governance group. In my part of London, we have a…
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