Monday 28 January 2013

Your medical information from your GP for commercial interests? - Lexology reblog

A post from a lawyer with severe doubts about the confidentiality of patient information, now that the government is proposing to collect GP information, aimed to be with the aim of evaluating GPs. But the information will identify patients, and the government has made a big thing about using NHS information to help commercial companies to compete in the international marketplace.

So who will rally be using your information and why? And will they ask you for permission and tell you how they are going to use it? Seems not.

This is the link to the legal commentary.

Link to the government proposals.

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