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Plans to extract data from NHS general practitioner records in England have divided high-profile commentators in the August 'silly season' for off-beat newspaper headlines.
Under the headline 'Your confidential medical records for sale... at just ?1' the Daily Mail (print circulation 1.8 million) reported that 'A secret plan to sell confidential medical records to private companies for as little as ?1has been drawn up by officials.'
The report is about the GP Extraction Service, a service managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre under the name Care.data. From next month, it will extract information from GP IT systems for purposes including NHS management by clinical commissioning groups, research, and - under the government's open data programme - re-use in anonymised form by industry.
http://www.ukauthority.com/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=4295
Under the headline 'Your confidential medical records for sale... at just ?1' the Daily Mail (print circulation 1.8 million) reported that 'A secret plan to sell confidential medical records to private companies for as little as ?1has been drawn up by officials.'
The report is about the GP Extraction Service, a service managed by the Health and Social Care Information Centre under the name Care.data. From next month, it will extract information from GP IT systems for purposes including NHS management by clinical commissioning groups, research, and - under the government's open data programme - re-use in anonymised form by industry.
http://www.ukauthority.com/tabid/64/Default.aspx?id=4295