NHS denies personal information will be shared in appointments row

Stuart Sumner
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NHS England comes out fighting in media storm over data sharing around GP appointments

A letter from NHS England to EMIS Health, a firm that supplies software to GP surgeries, reveals plans to extract data around millions of patients' GP appointments within the next couple of months....

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