Labour’s initiatives

This link has a summary of what was (re-)announced by Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer on 21 October

The new government is taking “a data-led approach”, and has already announced that it will:

These different strands will start to overlap and merge over time – fitbit data provided to care for people will be copied to the Department of Health in England who’ll give a copy to DWP so DWP can design policy and future sanctions regimes. 

Pregnant women will be required to share data with the app if they want NHS care, and that data will then be sold on. In many cases the “choice” in Wes Streeting’s NHS will become “your data or your life”.

Government believes that any data that is available anywhere should be available everywhere, reflecting the turbocharging of the database state using techniques unimaginable when labour last left power, and they will leave a powerful set of tools for the next government. Wes Streeting wants to believe he’ll be Secretary of State forever, neglecting both his own desire for promotion and forgetting that all governments end.