Privacy groups say a government plan to share anonymised NHS data with commercial companies will herald the “death of patient confidentiality”.
Prime Minister David Cameron is due to give a speech this afternoon unveiling plans to boost the UK’s life sciences sector.
According to wide-spread coverage of his speech, these will involve a new service, developed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, that will link anonymised hospital data with data from primary care.
The government is to spend £60m developing the Clinical Practice Research Datalink. It is not clear whether companies will pay to use it.E-Health Insider :: NHS open data plans 'death of privacy'
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