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Written question asked by Chi Onwurah (Labour) on Monday, 17 January 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 19 January 2022. It was answered by Edward Argar (Conservative) on Tuesday, 25 January 2022 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Medical Technologies Directorate: Life Sciences

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 20 December 2021 to Question 92932, what plans his Department has to ensure the Medical Technology Directorate supports progress on the Precondition for Success, set out in the Life Sciences Vision, to simplify governance and oversight of NHS health data to drive research and innovation.

Answer

The Directorate is supporting NHSX to transform access to and integration of National Health Service health and genomic datasets for data-driven innovation and inclusive clinical trials, ensuring public confidence in data access for research and innovation purposes.

The Directorate’s MedTech strategy will detail steps to improve the data infrastructure and collection of evidence. Working with others in the health system we aim to enhance transparent, comparable data to build a trusted data picture of medical technology. This will enable further insights into Medical Technology and enable a greater understanding across usage, purchase, asset management, safety and innovation. Developing this data will inform delivery of operational and strategic objectives across the system. In addition, the Directorate is working to deliver the Medical Device Information System to enhance high quality health data and patient safety

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
105517
Session
2021-22
Related items
Medical Technologies Directorate: Life Sciences
Monday, 20 December 2021
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Innovation Research Life sciences Medical Technologies Directorate
Link
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