Home Office accessing NHS records to help track down illegal immigrants Patients' and migrants' rights groups express concern over use of little-noticed exemption in data protection rules
The Home Office has been given access to the NHS records of more than 6,900 people since 2010 as part of its efforts to track down illegal immigrants, prompting concerns from patients' and migrants' rights groups.
Medical records are protected by data protection laws but new statistics show the Home Office has made use of a little-noticed exemption in the rules to access patients' non-clinical records, without any need for a court order. Continue reading... The Guardian
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