PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ken W Dunn
AU  - Mark A de Belder
TI  - Using data to drive service improvement: false dawns and a promised land?
AID  - 10.7861/fhj.2022-0058
DP  - 2022 Jul 01
TA  - Future Healthcare Journal
PG  - 150--153
VI  - 9
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/150.short
4100  - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/9/2/150.full
SO  - Future Healthc J2022 Jul 01; 9
AB  - 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.