Policy paper

Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data (draft)

The draft strategy sets out ambitious plans to harness the potential of data in health and care, while maintaining the highest standards of privacy and ethics.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 22 June 2021
• Last updated: 10 February 2022
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  1. 10 February 2022

     Updated when the final version of the strategy is expected to be published to 2022.

  2. 8 September 2021

     Updated to reflect a survey for feedback on the draft data strategy has now closed.

  3. 28 July 2021

     Closing date extended to Friday 20 August

  4. 23 June 2021

     Updated to add the link to a survey to gather feedback.

  5. 22 June 2021

     First published.

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

This publication was withdrawn on 13 June 2022

This draft strategy has been replaced by the final version, Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data.

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The strategy sets out the Secretary of State’s vision for how data will be used to improve the health and care of the population in a safe, trusted and transparent way. It provides an overarching narrative and action plan to address the current cultural, behavioural and structural barriers in the system with the ultimate goal of having a health and care system that is underpinned by high quality, readily available data. It marks the next steps of the discussion about how we can best utilise data for the benefit of patients, service users, and the health and care system.

The strategy was published in draft format to enable full and open engagement on the commitments made within it, however the feedback survey has now closed. A final version of the strategy will be published in 2022.

Read more on why health and care data matters on the NHSX website.