This post was written by 67Health in partnership with Data Saves Lives. 67Health is a healthcare communications agency. Data Saves Lives is a multi-stakeholder initiative with the aim of… Read More »Building informed consent – the importance of trust and transparency in safe health data sharing practices
This post was written by 67Health in partnership with Data Saves Lives. 67Health is a healthcare communications agency. Data Saves Lives is a multi-stakeholder initiative with… Read More »Health data will pave the route to patient empowerment – so long as it is conducted and managed in an ethical way
This post was written by Dr Jessica Barnes, psychologist/behavioural scientist and qualitative researcher in the Cancer Behavioural Science Group at King’s College London. She is… Read More »Beyond trust: collective understanding of the common good and patient data
Just over two years ago, on the 25th of May 2018, the UK government implemented the Data Protection Act across the country. This was the latest… Read More »Medical research and the double-edged sword of data protection
In this series, members of our group, the wider research field & individuals from public interest groups will debate the use of patient data in… Read More »Medical research and the common law of confidentiality
In this blog Dr Mieke Van Hemelrijck, Reader (Associate Professor) in Cancer Epidemiology in the School of Cancer & Pharmaceutical Sciences at King’s College London… Read More »Cancer outcomes during COVID: building on existing datasets & collaborations
This blog was written by Mairéad Lyons. Mairéad is a Senior Consultant to YouScreen the HPV Self-Sampling study. She has been working in healthcare for… Read More »Engineering meets medicine: A toilet to monitor our health or ill-health.
On 25th of May 2018 the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went live. GDPR is designed to protect EU citizens from organisations using their data… Read More »Data protection versus health protection
The clinical director of the Irish national cervical screening programme Ireland, Dr Grainne Flannelly, resigned at the end of April. It was revealed that she… Read More »To tell or not to tell – what should we do?
