Health written question – answered at on 4 February 2014.
Andrew Gwynne
Shadow Minister (Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the benefits to treatment and care quality of making health records available for medical research.
Daniel Poulter
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health
The benefits to treatment and care of making anonymised and linked patient records available to researchers, protecting patient confidentiality, are set out in the ‘Plan for Growth’, the ‘Strategy for UK Life Sciences’ and the NHS Chief Executive's report ‘Innovation Health and Wealth’.
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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