Our submission to the National Data Guardian review

The Department of Health is consulting on the roles and responsibilities of the National Data Guardian for health and social care.

The National Data Guardian for health and social care will help to ensure that personal confidential data is held and used to support better outcomes from health and care services, at the same time providing confidence that there are thorough safeguards in place to protect personal confidential data.

In response to the consultation, we have submitted written evidence on public attitudes on consent and data security based on what the Healthwatch network have heard from people. We hope this will be used by the National Data Guardian’s review team to develop the future consent and opt-out policy.