BlockMed Pro is a patient-controlled health data platform and ethical research marketplace, built by practising NHS GPs. Patients choose to take part in research and are rewarded. Your practice stays the Data Controller, takes on no unresourced work, and shares in the value created.
Voluntary for patients. Records are shared only with each patient's explicit consent, and researchers only ever access anonymised data. No setup cost.
Through the BMA's collective action campaign, practices across England have been urged to stop absorbing work that is not resourced, to scrutinise data sharing arrangements before signing them, and to assert their position as Data Controllers rather than passive suppliers of patient data. BlockMed Pro was designed by NHS GPs around those same principles.
Your practice is never asked to give something for nothing. When your patients' anonymised data supports research, your practice shares in the value it creates.
You remain the Data Controller throughout. Nothing about this partnership transfers control of your patients' records away from your practice.
There is no bulk extraction and no scheme patients are defaulted into. Each patient chooses individually, on the platform, with consent they can revoke at any time.
The practice's role is deliberately small. BlockMed Pro runs the platform, the research partners and the compliance, so the programme adds no ongoing workload.
Every safeguard in the programme follows from one principle - your practice keeps control of the records it holds, and nothing is sent in bulk. A patient's record is shared only when that individual patient explicitly consents on the platform, it is anonymised before any research use, and every project is documented before it begins.
Patients join through one simple app, see exactly how their data is used, and are rewarded when it supports research. Nothing happens to their data without their say-so.
Patients take ownership of their health records and manage everything in one place, joining in minutes.
Full control over what is shared and with whom. Consent can be revoked at any time, and opting out is always available.
A notification whenever their data is used, with a full history they can check at any time.
Patients receive the majority of the value each time their anonymised data supports a research project, with a real-time balance and easy withdrawal.
Patients always choose for themselves. Both routes link to the My Patient Advice information website, where patients learn about taking control of their health data before deciding to join.
Your practice sends educational messages to patients aged 16 and over, at least once a year, with a link to the My Patient Advice website. Patients learn, and those who want to join do so through your practice's link.
Send › Patients join via your link › Your practice earns a share
When a research partner needs patients with a specific condition, your practice sends an approved invitation to a matching group, in your name. The DPIA is signed off before anything is sent, and patients self-enrol.
We define the need › You invite › They self-enrol
Established Participant Identification Centre (PIC) activity, the same way practices already support NHS research.
Research partners access high-quality, fully anonymised, consented data - the kind that genuinely moves treatment development forward. When your patients take part, the value is shared.
Each time a patient's anonymised data supports a research project, the patient receives the majority of the resulting revenue. Your practice receives a 10% share of net data revenue attributed to your patients, and the remainder covers running the platform and delivering the research. Where a patient first joined through a community pharmacy partner, the practice share is 5%, so joining early protects your full attribution.
Your share is calculated and paid monthly by bank transfer under a self-billing arrangement, with a transparent statement for any month in which data sales take place. It continues for as long as your patients generate revenue, scales with every new research project and partner, and requires no setup cost and no ongoing workload from the practice.
That is the full extent of the practice's role.
Records reach the platform only through each patient's explicit consent, and researchers only ever access anonymised data.
A short, plain-English revenue sharing agreement.
Approved materials, the educational website link and the per-project DPIA.
Educational messages to your patients, in your practice's name.
Patients self-enrol, consent, and are rewarded for taking part.
Transparent reporting and payment for any month with data sales.
Early practices are featured as founding partners, positioned as research-active and digitally innovative, and protect their full share before community pharmacy partnerships begin.
A further 2 million patients in the near-term pipeline, plus a growing base of pharmaceutical and academic research partnerships. Live NHS record integration (IM1) on the roadmap.
A short conversation is usually enough to see whether the partnership fits your practice. Book a time directly, or send us a message through our website and we will come back to you. We will answer any questions from your partners, your practice manager or your DPO, with no obligation.
Jen Mosley
Business Development Manager, BlockMed Pro UK Ltd
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