General Practice Data for Planning and Research Directions 2021
Directions given by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care requiring NHS Digital to establish and operate an information system for the collection and analysis of General Practice data for health and social care purposes.
During the summer of 2021 substantial public, patient and professional concerns were raised about the changes we were proposing to improve the control, security, and consistency of access to data from general practice (GP). Many of these people, including GPs, also think that in the past these concerns had not been listened to or fully understood. We, as a health and care system, have an opportunity through this new GP data collection, ‘GP Data for Planning and Research’ to do much better.
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