An interesting editorial in the current issue of the British Medical
Journal:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7284/442
Undermining data privacy in health information
Ross Anderson
The editorial asserts that Clause 67:
... grants the secretary of state for health two sweeping new powers: (a) to
collect all personal health information in identifable form not just from
the NHS, but from the private sector too; and (b) to regulate (or even ban)
the use of personal health information by third parties...
Gil Richardson
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