NHS data sharing will streamline services, says health minister

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Government plans to share patient data across the NHS will have “cast-iron” security, a health minister has said. Officials also announced plans for a “single patient record” which will summarise all of a patient’s health information, test results and letters in one place, through the NHS App. But if you cherish something, you have to be prepared to change it.” A spokesperson for patient privacy campaign group medConfidential said: “Patients should know how data about them is accessed and used, and their choices to opt out of such uses should be respected not removed.” We have a clear plan to fix the health service, but it’s only right that we hear from the people who rely on the NHS every day to have their say and shape our plan as we deliver it Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer NHS England’s national medical director Professor Sir Stephen Powis told Times Radio: “Data safety is a top priority for the NHS, for the reasons of privacy, but also for reasons of cybersecurity. “It’s your health, it’s your data, and I think it empowers individuals to know more about their health and to live healthier lives.” Meanwhile Mr Kinnock said it is “up to every NHS trust to do what works for them at the point of delivery” after a report in The Times suggested that ambulances have been told to leave patients in hospitals after 45 minutes to be able to get back out responding to 999 calls.