What is really happening with your medical data?

in #medical8 years ago

Following a review by Dame Fiona Caldicott, the UK government decided to pull the plug on care.data, a controversial NHS initiative to store all patient data on a single database. This may seem like a victory for data-privacy advocates, but NHS data-sharing initiatives are still being planned and the goalposts are being moved on patient consent.

http://www.radiofreeuk.org/blogs/alan/2016/08/11/care-data-has-been-scrapped-but-your-health-data-could-still-be-shared/