Senior GPs have called on colleagues to refuse to hand over patients’ personal data to NHS Digital, in a move they hope will buy time to raise awareness of plans to place all medical records in England on a central database. The email makes clear the refusal to share the data is technically a breach of the Health and Social Care Act 2012. The agency says the data, which will include information on patients’ physical, mental and sexual health, will be anonymised. “There’s an immense amount of good that can come from responsible and secure use of public data, public health records,” Kamlana said. “NHS Digital have not publicised this in the way that I would have expected,” Bhatti wrote.

Source: The Guardian June 01, 2021 11:39 UTC