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UK: Patient data leaves NHS – officials answer our questions

Posted on October 27, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Nearly 300 million confidential medical records have transferred officially from the government to an academic organisation outside the NHS, Computer Weekly has learned.

The transferred records contain patient-identifiable information on nearly every stay by patients in hospitals in England, and visits to an accident and emergency department. Also within the transferred records are 215 million confidential files on visits to outpatient departments.

The downloaded files contain dates of birth of patients, their postcodes, NHS numbers and local hospital numbers.

Since 2007 the patient-identifiable records have been downloaded, with official approval, from the Secondary Uses Services, a central database of medical records which is run by BT under the NHS’s £12.7bn National Programme for IT [NPfIT].

The disclosure about the transfer of confidential medical files outside the NHS exposes what the British Medical Association and lawyers say is a lack of public debate about the use of patient data in medical research.

Read more in ComputerWeekly.com

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1 thought on “UK: Patient data leaves NHS – officials answer our questions”

  1. Anonymous says:
    October 27, 2008 at 4:09 pm

    In Germany, nobody seems to be alerted by the fact that 70 Million confidential medical records were transferred to a non-medical federal institution. Very interesting data: outpatient visits, diagnose, prescriptions, cost. Social security numbers included.

    Any public debate? Zilch.

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