SC Magazine – A Government plan to collect the health data on every person in England on a single database – and then share the information among health professionals – is being threatened by data privacy fears and the likelihood that it will break the upcoming new European-wide data protection law.
The NHS is leafleting all 22 million households in England this month to explain that from April, under the ‘care.data’ programme, electronic patient records from every GP practice in the country will be centrally gathered and shared with researchers from academia and pharmaceutical companies.
