TY - JOUR T1 - Using data to drive service improvement: false dawns and a promised land? JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - 150 LP - 153 DO - 10.7861/fhj.2022-0058 VL - 9 IS - 2 AU - Ken W Dunn AU - Mark A de Belder Y1 - 2022/07/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/150.abstract N2 - Increasing emphasis and expectation is being placed on the role of healthcare data in addressing the problems faced by the NHS. The ideal is to replace the current fragmented system of individual systems and registries with a universal, integrated data system that provides frontline staff with what they need while also allowing monitoring of services, intelligent population-based commissioning and the facilitation of quality improvement (QI) and research. With the recently published tender for the creation of a federated data platform (FDP) there is optimism that these aspirations are being addressed; however, concerns remain that the future use of healthcare data in the UK will not fulfil its potential if the current well-recognised shortcomings of existing systems and processes are not dealt with. ER -