UK set to sell sensitive NHS records to commercial companies with no meaningful privacy protections

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To make things worse the contract for handling / managing the care data has been given to ATOS:

http://uk.atos.net/en-uk/home/your-business/healthcare/business-intelligence/gp-extraction-service.html

yes the same company whose disability benefit assessment has been found to be flawed and unacceptable in 40% of cases by the Audit Commission:

Here are further links to opt out forms and additional information on the detail from the perspective of a practicing GP.

http://brief.care-data.info

And here the personal views of someone who cares about information rights and wrongs.

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