Maintain movement of health professionals and protect the conditions for health research is important. The European medical profession calls for formal adoption of the draft adequacy decision on the UK data protection regime.
Protecting the benefits of the free flow of personal data must be a top priority. The absence of an adequacy decision would negatively impact the UK and EU health sectors and their patients. We urge the European Data Protection Board and the European Parliament to support the ruling and National Governments to approve the draft decision.
Read the full statement here.