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Protecting confidential patient information and promoting public health research

17 April 201410 March 2016 allysonpollockhealth service reforms, NHS

Summary In December 2013, NHS England directed the Health and Social Care Information Centre to establish a system for uploading and linking GP patient coded data with identifiers, using its new powers in Part 9 of the Health and Social…

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Why the public should opt in to care.data and out of data privatisation

31 January 201410 March 2016 allysonpollockhealth service reforms, NHS

The NHS England leaflet ‘Better information means better care’, sent to every household in England, has triggered a campaign to encourage people to opt out of the new care.data system by telling their GP that they do not want their…

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Latest articles and publications

Lessons for Ontario Canada: the privatisation of elective surgery for hips, knees, and cataracts in England compared with Scotland

The struggles that led to the unwise demise of the Public Health Laboratory Service, 1979–2003, in the context of changing economic policy

The crisis in our NHS pre- and post-covid

Areas of interest

Sports injury & injury epidemiology

Regulatory science & pharmaceuticals

Essential medicines

Public inquiries – infected blood and covid-19

NHS reforms

Health and Care Bill 2021-22

PFI & PPPs

Covid-19

Unpublished papers

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Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.

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Public speaking

• Keynote address: waiting times, inequality and the role of the independent sector
NHS Waiting List Conference, London
Date: 10-11 June 2026
• Instruments to diagnose depression: the studies underpinning Global Burden of Disease estimates. Evidence Based Early Diagnosis 2024: Exploring new diagnostics – big promise, big challenge. University of St Andrews, 30 May 2024.
• Our NHS: waiting lists and waiting times. Church of Scotland, 12 Chapel St, Carlisle CA1 1AJ, 2:30pm, 26 July 2025
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Recent posts

  • Oration for the Edinburgh Medal 2024: Mario Negri Institute
  • Email to Hugo Keith KC, 30 May 2023
  • As covid continues its tour of Europe, what is the public health evidence for covid passes? 02 December 2021
  • Mandatory vaccination will not make care home residents safe from covid, it is unnecessary, and data underpinning the government’s case is unreliable
  • Health and Care Bill 2021-22

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