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The NHS has conceded that it should be clearer about how patients can opt out of a controversial scheme to share their medical records in a single English database.
Patients have until March to opt out of the system, which is aimed at improving research into the outcome of treatments, and will allow drug and insurance companies to buy "pseudonymised" medical information about them.
Last month, all 26m households in England were sent leaflets about the care.data scheme as part of an information campaign, which includes a video setting out what the NHS sees as the benefits of sharing medical records and information about the outcome of treatments.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/04/nhs-admits-clearer-medical-records-sharing-scheme
Patients have until March to opt out of the system, which is aimed at improving research into the outcome of treatments, and will allow drug and insurance companies to buy "pseudonymised" medical information about them.
Last month, all 26m households in England were sent leaflets about the care.data scheme as part of an information campaign, which includes a video setting out what the NHS sees as the benefits of sharing medical records and information about the outcome of treatments.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/04/nhs-admits-clearer-medical-records-sharing-scheme