Content originally from Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System
There’s power in patient data
If you care about cookies when you visit a website, you’re probably interested in your data and what happens to it.
Your health data, including age, gender, diagnoses and medications prescribed, in a way that does not identify you, is used to plan health and care services for the local area.
Patient data is also used to help your GP provide better personalised care.
This process is called risk stratification. We’re given special permission to use your data to give better personalised care by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care through a clause called Section 251.
You can find out more about how we use and protect your data to inform local health services, as well as what to do if you want to opt out and how this may affect your care by reading a blog post from Paula Wilkinson, Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation and Senior Responsible Officer for Risk Stratification for Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board (MSE ICB).
| Read Paula’s blog post |
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