If you are registered with a GP in England, the government has demanded your GP upload your full medical history to a central database on 1 September – but there are serious concerns about who will have access to your data and what they will do with it. Here, we answer your top questions following on from our live expert discussion on 1 July about the data grab.
1) Who owns my GP data?
No one ‘owns’ personal data. In UK law, your GP is the ‘data controller’ of your individual GP records – you have legal rights, and your GP has a legal duty to protect them.
(How we all can benefit from the use of health data collectively, is a bigger question – one that requires a political debate to scrutinise the bold claims of Big Tech against what we really want the future of health provision to look like).
