NHS care.data - a horribly botched operation

John Leonard
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If respect for personal data had been put at the core of the care.data programme from the start the PR disaster of its rollout could have been avoided

The care.data programme currently being piloted in a few hundred GP practices before a planned national rollout expands NHS England's collection of medical data for analytical use. Since 1989 infor...

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