NHS England to share sensitive healthcare data with third-party database
As reported by the Financial Times this week, NHS England announced it plans to use medical data from some 55 million patients with third party researchers. The data will include mental and sexual health, abuse and criminal records and more.
Patients can opt out of the plan, but if they do not, their data will be put together into a single database with all GP registered patients in the country available to academic and third parties.