ALT Membership The GP Data for Planning and Research Check and Challenge Advisory Group represents a number of organisations/areas with knowledge and expertise in Data usage and security, and the GP Profession, including: British Medical Association (BMA) Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) Office of the National Data Guardian (NDG) Office for National Statistics (ONS) Information Commissioners Office (ICO) Nuffield Department for Primary Care Health Sciences (PHC) Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) Association of Medical Research Charities (AMRC) National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

ALT 3. Build a small number of secure analytics platforms - shared “Trusted Research Environments” - then make these the norm for all analysis of NHS patient records data by academics, NHS analysts, and innovators, wherever there is any privacy risk to patients, unless those patients have consented to their data flowing elsewhere. Every new TRE brings a risk of duplicated effort, duplicated...

ALT ...information governance, duplicated privacy risks, monopolies on access or task, and obstructive divergence around data curation and similar activity: there should be as few TREs as possible, with a strong culture of openness and re-use around all code and platforms.