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DWP access to claimants’ medical data
Came across this in an interview with the new head of the Govt Digital Service (GDS)
“The real work is going on in [places such as] Leeds and Manchester, as well as London. We need to be part of that,” he says.
“The example I use is where DWP now runs a whole set of disability benefits. It would be incredibly helpful if DWP had selected and consensual access to some of [those people’s] medical data.
“Right now, NHS Digital and DWP are having that conversation in Leeds and we’re not in the conversation. Why wouldn’t GDS be in a conversation like that? If we’re going to be, we’ve got to be in Leeds – we can’t do that from here.”
well since they seem to ignore people’s medical records when handed to them .....
” Access to your NHS records has not provided me with any new evidence [that I can understand] that will allow me to change the original decision”.