Health Service Record Confidentiality

[Peter Mitchell]

On 24/02/2014 08:59, Mary Hawking wrote:
> Looking forward to 2.30 on Tuesday 25th? Health Select Committee first
> evidence session on "the proposed care.data database"
> http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/h
> ealth-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/cdd-2014/
>



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10656893/Hospital-records-of-all-NHS-patients-sold-to-insurers.html

... a report by a major UK insurance society discloses that it was able to obtain 13 years of hospital data – covering 47 million patients – in order to help companies “refine” their premiums.

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Pete Mitchell