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“And does what the strategy is proposing sufficiently meet them?”īyrne makes recommendations for the conditions required to meet these needs:

#Data guardian review full#

“What are the conditions that must be satisfied before our health and care ecosystem can reach full maturity in terms of its trustworthiness to patients and professionals alike?” Byrne asks. In order to achieve this, Byrne recommends thinking of the data landscape in terms of Maslow’s hierarchy of need, visualising needs as a layered pyramid with basic requirements at the bottom and successive layers built on top. In addition, Byrne appreciated the strategy’s acknowledgement that it must do better to rebuild and strengthen people’s trust following the GP Data for Planning and Research programme. “People need to know that the government understands just how unique this highly private information is – and that as such, commitments will be needed to demonstrate how confidentiality will be protected and respected.” To begin, Dr Byrne notes that, having emphasised the importance of public trust in an earlier draft, she was pleased to see it take focus in the published version. Now, the National Data Guardian Dr Nicola Byrne has shared her views on the strategy, exploring whether it is “a blueprint for the evolution of a trustworthy data system, and whether it provides for all of the conditions that must be met in order to create an environment in which innovation can flourish.” “Our ability to successfully achieve better things through data and digital hinges on the strength of the relationships that will deliver this change” We covered the strategy at HTN click here to read our overview, or here to read industry views we curated. The government recently released their new data strategy for health and care, “Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data”.