NHS Digital’s demise bad for 55 million patients’ privacy – ex-chairman

Ten months after attempts first began to extract the medical information of 55 million citizens in England, NHS Digital’s former chairman is warning the merger of the agency with NHS England threatens the privacy of people’s personal data. The view was that if a patient had chosen to use the NHS they had implicitly agreed that their data could be used for the benefit of the NHS Writing in trade publication the British Medical Journal, Kingsley Manning said health secretary Sajid Javid’s decision to merge NHS Digital into NHS England and NHS Improvement last year was a “retrograde step not least in the context of this government’s clear intent to weaken the constraints on the use of patient data.”

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