Did you know the NHS is about to share your records?

Did you know the NHS is about to share your records? I am waiting for a letter from my GP’s surgery asking me whether I consent to having my medical data uploaded on to a national database and made available to researchers, but it doesn’t seem it is going to come.

In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are millions of people in Britain who are unaware that, unless they formally object by June 23, then a week later their health records will be added to an NHS Digital database, which could then be shared, in anonymised form, with universities, pharmaceutical companies and technology companies. The Daily Mail

See also:

• Collecting GP data - advice for the public NHS Digital
• GPs warn over plans to share patient data with third parties in England The Guardian
• The Guardian view on medical records: NHS data grab needs explaining | Editorial The Guardian
• NHS England’s plans for use of our personal data leaves me very worried The Independent
• New GP data extraction ‘far exceeds’ care.data plans, warn privacy campaigners Pulse