Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of of adapting the NHS opt-out system to allow patients to consent to data being shared within the NHS but not with third-parties.

The National Data Opt Out in its current form was established in 2018 on the recommendation of the National Data Guardian and following development by the National Data Opt Out Implementation Board, which included user-testing. This concluded that a single opt out question was preferable.