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Vital safeguards for protecting patients' privacy when NHS England records are shared with companies were scrapped by peers on Wednesday night.
A proposed tweak to the Care Bill, tabled by Lord Owen, would have brought in independent statutory oversight to better protect the handling of patient information across the health service, following the care.data debacle.
But government peers tossed aside the concerns by dismissing the amendment during a House of Lords session scrutinising the draft law.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/0...n_data_handling_rejected_by_government_peers/
A proposed tweak to the Care Bill, tabled by Lord Owen, would have brought in independent statutory oversight to better protect the handling of patient information across the health service, following the care.data debacle.
But government peers tossed aside the concerns by dismissing the amendment during a House of Lords session scrutinising the draft law.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/0...n_data_handling_rejected_by_government_peers/