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NHS patient records will be flogged off to profiteering private-sector insurance and drug companies when a giant database is set up later this year, campaigners warned yesterday.
English medical records will be fed into the new
care.data database controlled by arm's-length body the Health and Social Care Information Centre from March.
Patients will be able to opt-out of having their information shared.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
