Data collection

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29 October 2020

Covid-19: Recording of ethnicity data to be mandatory on death certificates

The recording of ethnicity data on death certificates in England is set to become mandatory in a bid to tackle
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19 August 2020

ZOE Covid-19 Symptom Study app awarded ÂŁ2m government grant

A ÂŁ2million grant is to be given to the ZOE Covid-19 Symptom Study app by the UK government to support
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Data capture
19 June 2020

NHS Covid-19 data store fails to collect and analyse BAME data

The data protection impact assessment (DPIA) on the data store revealed that health information on the virus would not be
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17 June 2020

Collection of BAME Covid-19 data ‘should be mandated’

Public Health England (PHE) has released a series of recommendations aimed at reducing the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on BAME
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11 June 2020

Contact-tracing app data ‘could feed into NHS Covid-19 data store’

The data protection impact assessment on the store, managed by Palantir, provides a look at how data will inform the
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4 June 2020

Analysis of Covid-19 data ‘fails to provide actions to reduce inequalities’

A rapid review of coronavirus data by Public Health England (PHE) found BAME people were twice as likely to die,
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12 December 2019

NHS bosses meet with tech giants to discuss commercial patient database

A secretive meeting, held on 24 October, saw discussions around collecting patient data to improve healthcare services and potentially profit
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Data capture
30 April 2019

Another view: On how data capture and analysis is changing

In wearables, sensors and AI, Neil Paul thinks he may just see the future of research and patient monitoring –
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25 May 2018

National data opt-out programme comes into force

The national data opt-out programme has been launched, with a view to allowing people to choose how their health data
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22 June 2017

Data analytics can boost mental healthcare – trust CEO

Data analytics will be crucial to improving the delivery of mental healthcare and demonstrating the need for investment in it,
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