Understanding Patient Data

• Using patient data is essential to improve health and deliver better care

  How data is used
• There must be robust safeguards to protect patient confidentiality when data is used

  How it is kept safe
• Everyone should know how patient data is used and why, and what choices you can make

  Resources

More than two thirds of the population do not feel they know how health data is used in the NHS. We want to change that. Understanding Patient Data has been set up to support conversations with the public, patients and healthcare professionals about how health and care data is used, providing resources for people to find out more.