The NHS already provides lots of health data in anomymised form for research. Some like neonatal data is high quality and allows national data research. But GP data is not joined up when people move practices. Hospital episode data often incomplete details. And no national maternity dataset

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The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data

Properly organised, the mammoth database of medical information the health service holds has vast potential in the exploration of new treatments