PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Medical Records: Ethnic Groups (22 February 2022)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of the Data saves lives White Paper on improving data collection by ethnicity.
Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)
Answer
An Equality Impact Assessment was completed for Data saves lives, the data strategy for health and social care. The strategy sets the vision for better use of data across the health and care system and that includes the better collection and linkage of data to identify, measure and act on health disparities where they occur, including those relating to ethnicity.
Answered by:
Gillian Keegan (Conservative)
10 March 2022
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