This first appeared in the Huffington Post UK on 14 March 2016 Written with Peter Roderick, co-author of the NHS Bill On Friday, the cross party NHS Bill returned to the Commons for its second reading (watch the video). The…
Protecting confidential patient information and promoting public health research
Summary In December 2013, NHS England directed the Health and Social Care Information Centre to establish a system for uploading and linking GP patient coded data with identifiers, using its new powers in Part 9 of the Health and Social…
Why the public should opt in to care.data and out of data privatisation
The NHS England leaflet ‘Better information means better care’, sent to every household in England, has triggered a campaign to encourage people to opt out of the new care.data system by telling their GP that they do not want their…