U-turn over NHS database opt-out: Victory for privacy campaign

[Northerner]

Patients are to be given the right to opt out of an NHS database logging details of drinking habits, waist sizes and family medical histories.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will today announce that ? following protests from privacy campaigners ? people will be allowed to instruct their GPs not to hand over their records to a centralised information bank.
When details of the scheme emerged earlier this year, ministers insisted there would be no opportunity to opt out.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...Victory-privacy-campaign-hunt-backs-down.html

 

[Andy HB]

I was trying to work out how this was a victory for privatisation ..... until I reread the title!!

Andy 🙂