GPs and hospitals will be able to compare notes on your medical data at the touch of a button, but just how secure will this proposed electronic storage method be? It will be the most complete database of every man, woman and child in the UK. But the NHS Strategic Tracing Service is causing unease over the extent of privacy offered to patients, whose confidential medical records risk being exposed. Daniel Sabbagh investigates
IN THE next few weeks, the National Health Service will award a contract for a major project that few people beyond a small tribe of NHS IT experts will have heard of. Yet the battle that threate...
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