Submitted on Sunday 18th August 2013
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Your confidential medical records for sale at just £1: Hunt insists plan to sell details to private firms is vital to combat epidemics
A secret plan to sell confidential medical records to private companies for as little as £1 has been drawn up by officials.
From next month, GPs will start sending detailed NHS patient records to a central database for the first time under the new General Practice Extraction Service (GPES).
Yet doctors do not have to tell patients about the project, described by campaigners as an ‘unprecedented threat’ to medical confidentiality.
The records – held for every person registered with a GP – will contain details of medical conditions, as well as ‘identifiable’ information including a patient’s NHS number, postcode and date of birth.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2396362/Your-confidential-medical-records-sale--just-1-Hunt-insists-plan-sell-details-private-firms-vital-combat-epidemics--critics-fear-unprecedented-privacy-threat.html#ixzz2cJP7Q1h9
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