Thread by @marcus_baw

It really feels like we're in the grip of #NHSdataFEVER...
What's going on?

In last few weeks:

#GPDPR - a huge change in how data that your GP saves in your personal GP record gets shared with the Government. The #DPIA (Data Privacy Impact Assessment) still awaited

#TIGRR - a bonkers, breathless AI-centric libertarian wish-list of data deregulation including abolition of some Articles from our own #GDPR laws (NOT EU law, it's UK law)

Tomorrow there will be a new NHS Data Strategy - which conflates many different uses of data to try to send a ALL DATA GOOD MOAR PLEASE message without any real clarity of thought.

Don't worry though because the #HealthSecretary is telling you that "Patients own their health data" - but he seems to be selling it. Selling something that someone else owns is generally difficult to get away with.

"Data Saves Lives" was the catchphrase of a recent parilamentary exchange about the #GPDPR delay - and it turns out that is the title of this new Data Strategy

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(embargoed till 0001 22.06.21)

At the same time there is another Data Strategy being produced - the #GoldacreReview

Two data strategies?

And a new Health Bill.

It really feels tone deaf of Gov't to push ahead with all this reform while GPs are completely inundated, and we aren't yet out of the pandemic by a long way.

Now is EXACTLY the 'time to slow down or pause for breath'

The rush to deregulate and assume the right to have patient data is unseemly and antithetical to the foundations of the medical profession.

Hippocrates would be spinning in his grave.

Imagine being the first country to completely break the most foundational rule of Medicine.