Health Service Record Confidentiality

[Ian Batten]

On 24 Feb 2014, at 11:46, Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:17:32 +0000
> Peter Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> ... 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.
> 
> I can see why they would want this,

I can see why they would want it; that doesn't mean they should be given.

HSCIS's rather unconvincing excuse is that the data was provided by a previous
organisation and they wouldn't do it now.  Hardly reassuring.

ian