Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make NHS data by clinical commissioning group available for analysis by (a) charities and (b) other bodies that represent patients.

National Health Service Data is available for charities and other bodies that represent patients to apply for via the Data Access Request Service at NHS Digital. This data can be filtered in a variety of methods, such as by clinical commissioning groups. Further information, including how to apply can be found at the following link:

https://digital.nhs.uk/services/data-access-request-service-dars/data-access-request-service-dars-process