again been paused due to confidentiality concerns remaining unresolved. The programme was abandoned in July 2016. In May 2021 NHS Digital announced a new programme to replace the General Practice Extraction Service, General Practice Data for Planning and Research which was compared to Care.data. After widespread protests the launch was put back from 1 July to 1 September 2021. NHS Digital was criticised for failing to communicate its intentions beyond updating its website, effectively disenfranchising a huge portion of the general public who do not monitor the site. The new strategy is to be branded as Data Saves Lives. A spokesperson for MedConfidential said: "The biggest single issue is trust and unless the government gets this right they are going to collapse trust again." References Databases in England Department of Health and Social Care Medical databases in the United Kingdom