Colin R Mitchell

Are synthetic health data ‘personal data’? Our new report (commissioned by the MHRA) delves into this question and makes recommendations for synthetic data developers, researchers, regulators and policymakers. bit.ly/aresyntheticda…

It looks like some or all the COPI notices are to be extended to March 2022: the NHS Digital notice is extended digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus/co… (as is the deadline for compliance with the national data opt out digital.nhs.uk/services/natio…)

Brilliant discussion of #GenomeUk just streamed @PHGFoundation. Two immediate points for focus for me were the challenge of governing the research-clinic 'hinterland' from @annekeluc and regulatory barriers translating from international (eg @GA4GH) to national standards!

Really pleased to announce that our @ICOnews funded research on the impact of the GDPR on genomic healthcare and research is now available online: phgfoundation.org/report/the-gdp… Our report considers: the scope of personal data in this context, territorial scope..[1/4]

ABC v St George's Healthcare: A novel duty of care established, owed by HCPs to non-patients, where they have a close relationship (e.g. known to and cared for by HCPs) to conduct a balancing exercise of harms and benefits in disclosure of confidential information w/out consent.