To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of redundancies among university-employed clinical academics on NHS clinical capacity; how many NHS programmed activities are currently provided by university-employed clinical academics; and what estimate has been made of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of redundancies among university-employed clinical academics on NHS clinical capacity; how many NHS programmed activities are currently provided by university-employed clinical academics; and what estimate has been made of...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions her Department has had with the Department for Education concerning the withdrawal of Strategic Priorities Grant support for clinical academic pay, and what assessment has been made of whether reductions in university clinical academic posts resulting from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions her Department has had with the Department for Education concerning the withdrawal of Strategic Priorities Grant support for clinical academic pay, and what assessment has been made of whether reductions in university clinical academic posts resulting from...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has discussed with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham the potential effect of the Future Nottingham restructuring programme on the number of clinical academic staff providing NHS services and on the clinical...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has discussed with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Nottingham the potential effect of the Future Nottingham restructuring programme on the number of clinical academic staff providing NHS services and on the clinical...

Lords question for short debate on what assessment they have made of the use of patient data for research.

Lords question for short debate on what assessment they have made of the use of patient data for research.

My Lords, after listening to the last debate, I am tempted to speak only about how health research data might help economic growth to alleviate all the debt that we were talking about, but I will not. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, for taking this debate and ,all...

My Lords, after listening to the last debate, I am tempted to speak only about how health research data might help economic growth to alleviate all the debt that we were talking about, but I will not. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Merron, for taking this debate and ,all...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I congratulate him on securing this very important debate and on his insightful and excellent introductory speech.

The National Health Service is one of Britain’s greatest institutions. After 30 years as a front-line NHS consultant in women’s...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Patel. I congratulate him on securing this very important debate and on his insightful and excellent introductory speech.

The National Health Service is one of Britain’s greatest institutions. After 30 years as a front-line NHS consultant in women’s...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing this debate. I declare something of an interest, in that I am just back from the ninth World One Health Congress in Lisbon, partially supported by DSAC.

I go to the UKRI to start with the basic fact that the...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing this debate. I declare something of an interest, in that I am just back from the ninth World One Health Congress in Lisbon, partially supported by DSAC.

I go to the UKRI to start with the basic fact that the...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Patel for securing this timely debate, in which I only have time to speak about UK Biobank. I declare an interest, as I have been not only a participant since 2007 but also a co-investigator in a research study...

My Lords, I am very grateful to my noble friend Lord Patel for securing this timely debate, in which I only have time to speak about UK Biobank. I declare an interest, as I have been not only a participant since 2007 but also a co-investigator in a research study...

My Lords, I very much thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for introducing this debate. I very much agree with the points he made and I hope the answers will be forthcoming. Clearly, I support the use of patient data for research; the benefits from medical innovation, prevention and treatment...

My Lords, I very much thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for introducing this debate. I very much agree with the points he made and I hope the answers will be forthcoming. Clearly, I support the use of patient data for research; the benefits from medical innovation, prevention and treatment...

My Lords, this House’s Science and Technology Committee, which I chair, has been investigating innovation in the NHS, including the use of patient data for research. We expect to produce our report in the next few months.

There is no question that the UK has unique and exceptionally rich health data....

My Lords, this House’s Science and Technology Committee, which I chair, has been investigating innovation in the NHS, including the use of patient data for research. We expect to produce our report in the next few months.

There is no question that the UK has unique and exceptionally rich health data....

My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing this debate. Across a range of medical conditions, we are hopefully on the brink of medical advances, underpinned by robust research, which have the opportunity to save lives or transform them for the better. With the...

My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing this debate. Across a range of medical conditions, we are hopefully on the brink of medical advances, underpinned by robust research, which have the opportunity to save lives or transform them for the better. With the...

My noble friend Lord Patel, in introducing this important debate, spoke about health data secure systems. I will speak about the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage system—the SAIL database—based in Swansea and funded by the Welsh Government, which runs on the mantra of “public data for public good”. It has been...

My noble friend Lord Patel, in introducing this important debate, spoke about health data secure systems. I will speak about the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage system—the SAIL database—based in Swansea and funded by the Welsh Government, which runs on the mantra of “public data for public good”. It has been...

My Lords, I have worked on decision aids to help patients and healthcare professionals, and I am also an

unpaid adviser on the board of OpenSAFELY, a system for allowing research to be carried out securely on data.

Every healthcare decision we make is based on knowing what has happened to...

My Lords, I have worked on decision aids to help patients and healthcare professionals, and I am also an

unpaid adviser on the board of OpenSAFELY, a system for allowing research to be carried out securely on data.

Every healthcare decision we make is based on knowing what has happened to...

My Lords, today I address a challenge that sits at the intersection of public service and my professional background, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for this timely debate. Over a decade ago, I was working in the data analytics sector. It was an era when my colleagues...

My Lords, today I address a challenge that sits at the intersection of public service and my professional background, and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for this timely debate. Over a decade ago, I was working in the data analytics sector. It was an era when my colleagues...

My Lords, I take this opportunity provided to us by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, to talk about the data for research for the greatest health challenge of our time—dementia. We need to improve the quality, accessibility and use of dementia data to support research, which is in an extremely...

My Lords, I take this opportunity provided to us by the noble Lord, Lord Patel, to talk about the data for research for the greatest health challenge of our time—dementia. We need to improve the quality, accessibility and use of dementia data to support research, which is in an extremely...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing this debate on using patient data for patient-centred research, health and social care. I also thank all noble Lords who spoke and refer the House to my interests in the register—I will not name them all, because that would...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Patel, for securing this debate on using patient data for patient-centred research, health and social care. I also thank all noble Lords who spoke and refer the House to my interests in the register—I will not name them all, because that would...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on securing this debate and on his acknowledgement of the importance of patient data to research and of what the Government have done to date. I also thank noble Lords for their very thoughtful and informed contributions. I very much understand...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on securing this debate and on his acknowledgement of the importance of patient data to research and of what the Government have done to date. I also thank noble Lords for their very thoughtful and informed contributions. I very much understand...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on securing this debate. As an obstetrician, clinical teacher and academic, his exceptional work for well over 50 years has reduced the risks to women in pregnancy and childbirth. I...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy. I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Patel, on securing this debate. As an obstetrician, clinical teacher and academic, his exceptional work for well over 50 years has reduced the risks to women in pregnancy and childbirth. I...

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical students have (a) suspended and (b) withdrawn from their courses in each of the last five academic years where financial pressures were cited as a reason.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many medical students have (a) suspended and (b) withdrawn from their courses in each of the last five academic years where financial pressures were cited as a reason.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she intends double the number of medical school places.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she intends double the number of medical school places.