The UK Government has introduced a bill into Parliament aiming to will harness the ‘enormous power of data’ to free up millions of hours for NHS and police staff and boost the UK economy by £10 billion.
The new Data Use and Access Bill will help make data more easily transferable across NHS departments, freeing up 140,000 hours per year for staff to focus on patient outcomes. It will also remove manual logging requirements for police database access - which will save an estimated 1.5 million hours per year for staff.
