Post-Covid cancer care improved by new secure data, claims NHS

The data must be impossible to trace to an individual, and must always be restricted to authorised scientists.

I’m John Warburton with news of how new ways of securing information about cancer patients should help develop better treatments in the future. Researchers need to access patient records, but the data must be impossible to trace to an individual, and must always be restricted to authorised scientists. The NHS says a new release of up-to-date information about people researchers can never identify is showing investigators how the Covid pandemic harmed cancer treatment — and giving suggestions to improve future healthcare. We’ll update you on this and other news here on Care Radio. 

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