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Professor Ben Goldacre, director of the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
18 March 2026

Ben Goldacre: ‘GP data is the jewel in the crown of English health data’

Using data to optimise care is the next great horizon, writes Prof Ben Goldacre, director of the Bennett Institute for
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Professor Gillian Leng, president of the Royal Society of Medicine
2 October 2025

Ben Goldacre and Gillian Leng to keynote at Rewired 2026

Professor Ben Goldacre and Professor Gillian Leng have been announced as keynote speakers at Digital Health Rewired 2026.
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21 November 2023

NHS expands use of Covid-19 research platform to find new treatments

The NHS is to expand the use of a research platform behind the roll-out of new Covid-19 treatments to help
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13 March 2023

Earning the public’s trust on health data 

Ahead of Digital Health Rewired, Professor Ben Goldacre explains why information governance is not enough when it comes to protecting
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data breach
8 December 2022

First four regional secure data environments confirmed

Four initial sites will be awarded a slice of £100 million funding by NHS England to develop regional secure data
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21 November 2022

Prof Ben Goldacre to be Rewired 2023 keynote

Renowned doctor, academic, writer and broadcaster, Professor Ben Goldacre, will be returning to Digital Health Rewired 2023 as day two
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Data capture
13 June 2022

Government publishes final data strategy for healthcare

A new strategy has been launched by the government to drive transformation in health and care by reshaping the way
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16 May 2022

Goldacre says TREs will mitigate harmful data risks and ‘earn public trust’

Professor Ben Goldacre has told the Science and Tech Committee that Trusted Research Environments (TREs) will mitigate data risks and
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7 April 2022

Goldacre recommends Trusted Research Environments become ‘the norm’

A review led by Professor Ben Goldacre into health data has recommended Trusted Research Environments (TREs) become the "norm".
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24 February 2022

Sajid Javid wants 90% of NHS trusts to have an EPR by December 2023

The secretary of state for health and social care has said he wants 90% of NHS trusts to have an
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