NHS: Databases
Commons · Question 65989 · Tabled 8 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 14 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether patients who are data controllers under the national data opt-out can (a) review and (b) challenge how their records are processed within the Federated Data Platform.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 14 Jul 2025
The Federated Data Platform fully complies with the National Data Opt-Out policy. Confidential patient information is not used in the national instance, and only in a local instance for the purposes of direct care, and therefore the National Data Opt-Out ...