health data

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Dr Zubir Ahmed, former health innovation and safety minister
4 December 2025

UK should make money from NHS patient data, says health minister

The UK should leverage its new Health Data Research Service for the “benefit of the Treasury coffers”, health minister Zubir
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15 May 2025

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

Our news roundup covers the relaunch of health.tech in Basel, Switzerland and North Bristol NHS Trust's new da Vinci Xi
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Doctor and the word data
8 April 2025

DHSC announces creation of £600m Health Data Research Service

The government and the Wellcome Trust are investing up to £600 million to create a new Health Data Research Service.
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18 February 2025

Single patient record data will be available to researchers by default

Exclusive: A single patient record, accessed by providers, patients, policymakers and researchers, will be recommended in the 10 year plan.
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Image of Hetan Shah, chief executive of The British Academy
14 February 2025

‘AI can’t just be overlaid on a failing health service’

Hetan Shah, chief executive of The British Academy, said that the NHS "can't just overlay tech on a failing service”.
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Sir Keir Starmer
14 January 2025

Government announces AI Action Plan including health data library

Prime minister Keir Starmer has unveiled details of the government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, which includes a National Data Library.
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11 November 2024

UK ‘not maximising the benefits of health data’, says Sudlow review

The Sudlow review has called for barriers on access to NHS patient data to be removed so that it can
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Data centre with servers
18 October 2024

UK Biobank refutes claim that ‘race science’ group accessed data

UK Biobank "strongly" refutes claims that researchers from a ‘race science’ network obtained volunteers' sensitive health information.
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8 July 2024

AI can help build sustainable services – but only if we mitigate its risks

Concerns about AI should not stop progress. They should prompt us to think about how to apply such powerful processing,
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1 July 2024

AI can help build sustainable services – but only if we mitigate its risks

Concerns about AI should not stop progress. They should prompt us to think about how to apply such powerful processing,
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