Policy

Case Study: Policy for digital transformation of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS)

Our research expands the focus from selected clinical cases to the policy arena in which these cases orbit. Focusing on policy shifts in the UK towards digital transformation of the health sector, we ask:

• How are the interrelations between the technical, social and ethical aspects of health data work framed in UK policy?
• How is value ascribed to data in the context of healthcare and what assumptions underpin the vision of a data-driven health system?
• What is silenced in the promissory narratives of digital transformation in healthcare and what are the implications of these absences?