Cable Forum - View Single Post - Private health firms could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records & data

**Chris** · 04-12-2011, 13:27

According to that article:

- There is no information on whether they plan to charge for the data
- There is no information on opt-outs

But apart from that, feel free to vent your outrage over plans that have yet to be finalised, let alone implemented.

Clearly there are dangers and adequate safeguards must be set in place, but if the stated aim is to give a further advantage to the UK's life sciences sector by giving it access to data that will improve its ability to devise new treatments, what really is the problem? British business benefits and British hospital patients benefit.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,413	Re: Private health firms could be given access to anonymous NHS patient records & dat According to that article: - There is no information on whether they plan to charge for the data - There is no information on opt-outs But apart from that, feel free to vent your outrage over plans that have yet to be finalised, let alone implemented. Clearly there are dangers and adequate safeguards must be set in place, but if the stated aim is to give a further advantage to the UK's life sciences sector by giving it access to data that will improve its ability to devise new treatments, what really is the problem? British business benefits and British hospital patients benefit.