Inside Health - What's Going on With All of My Medical Records?

There is a plan in england for all of our g p data to be collected and then used for research, unless you decide to opt out. The hope is it's going to save lives in the same way that hospital data does,. That's already collected and analyzed in this kind of way. Remember the famous recovery trial we featured in the last series of inside health? It used hospital data to show that a cheap drug called dexamethosone, saved lives from cove. Martin landry who led the recovery trial at the university of oxford thinks there's a lot to gain.