Data

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4 September 2020

Government looks to digital ‘ID cards’ to enable easier access to services

Number 10 revealed on Tuesday it plans to ā€œupdate existing laws on identity checking to enable digital identity to be
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6 August 2020

UKRI offers Ā£5m for research into Covid-19 impact on BAME people

The funding is for ideas that address the vulnerability of BAME groups to Covid-19, or emerging social economic and cultural
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29 June 2020

Contact-tracing app U-turn ‘shouldn’t distract from wider data concerns’

Professor Eerke Boiten raised concerns about the companies with ā€œstrong political connectionsā€ that have access to the data.
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18 June 2020

The importance of data in the fight against coronavirus

Jem Rashbass, director of master registries and data at NHS Digital, explores why data has been a key role in
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Mustafa Suleyman Deepmind
5 June 2020

NHSX denies conflict of interest over DeepMind founder’s advisory role

Mustafa Suleyman was approached by NHSX to help the organisation explore how best to collect patient data, including the use
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1 May 2020

Covid-19: BAME data must not become ‘hot potato too difficult to confront’

The Shuri Network called for a ā€œstronger focusā€ from leaders to address inequalities following anaylsis that revealed disproportionate BAME deaths.
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20 April 2020

NHSX must be ‘upfront’ about contact-tracing app, privacy group says

The app, developed by NHSX, is currently being trialled in the North of England. Digital Health News understands it is
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6 April 2020

NHS partners with tech giants to develop Covid-19 data platform

The platform connects the Government and other national organisations responsible for coordinating the UKā€™s response to ā€œsecure, reliable and timely
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Caroline Rewired 2020
4 March 2020

Criado-Perez: Men are not a standard women fail to live up to

The first rule of the gender data gap, Criado-Perez tells us in a light-hearted and often funny talk on a
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Alzheimerā€™s,
13 February 2020

Alzheimerā€™s Research UK launches data initiative to help spot early signs

An initiatiave, which will analyse clinical and digital health data to develop early fingerprints of diseases like Alzheimerā€™s, has been
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