Birmingham NHS patient data sharing plans scrapped after concerns raised by GPs
Plans for a central data warehouse to allow multiple agencies to access a patient's care record scaled back - but consent opt-out remains
Following concerns about patient consent raised by a committee of the region's GPs, plans for a project to store records of Birmingham NHS patients in a central data warehouse have been scrapped. The...
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