I am really interested in the power of information to transform care and improve safety. You may have picked this up from an earlier blog – “Civil War, Heart Failure, Sex and Big Data” – and some people may know I was a professional statistician for a while. So I was delighted to be asked to contribute a blog to #AboutMeLeeds – a week long discussion on data and privacy and innovation. Details via Victoria Betton’s excellent Digital Mental Health Site are here

All of the blogs are worth reading – and cover diverse and bumpy ground. From using data to transform care, to critical questions like “how private is private?”. Find them all here

“It’s a matter of trust

The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, did a back to the floor session in our services last week. He worked alongside health and social care staff looking after older…