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Data are collected throughout the health service in increasingly large quantities, as well as in the contexts of biomedical and health research, for both direct care and secondary uses.

The Wellcome Trust commissioned Ipsos MORI to research attitudes towards commercial organisations having access to health data. As part of this, a survey was conducted to provide measures for some of the themes that arose from qualitative workshops, particularly where these themes were suited to a quantitative follow-up.

The Attitudes towards Commercial Access to Health Data, 2015-2016 survey was designed to explore perceptions of the sharing of health data, awareness of the extent of this sharing and to attempt to identify key red lines in the attitudes of the public. The findings fed into a wider report for the Wellcome Trust that incorporated the qualitative and quantitative findings.


Main Topics:

The main topics covered by the survey are:

Public perceptions of the sharing of health data with commercial organisations;

Awareness of health data sharing;

Support for access to health data under different circumstances.