Opposition to care.data grows as NHS suffers two million "serious data breaches" since 2011

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Leaked documents indicate known risk to centralisation and sale of patient records

The new, centralised NHS patient records database could be vulnerable to hackers and used to identify patients, according to the Privacy Impact Assessment from NHS England. Furthermore, the orga...

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