NHS will no longer have to share immigrants' data with Home Office

NHS will no longer have to share immigrants' data with Home Office Exclusive: minister announces U-turn over key element in ‘hostile environment’ immigration policy

Ministers have suspended controversial arrangements under which the NHS shared patients’ details with the Home Office so it could trace people breaking immigration rules.

The government’s U-turn on a key element of its “hostile environment” approach to immigration came after MPs, doctors’ groups and health charities warned that the practice was scaring some patients from seeking NHS care for medical problems. Continue reading... The Guardian

See also:

• Migration officials' access to NHS records 'to be tightened' BBC News
• Tracking illegal immigrants using NHS records will end, says Minister The Daily Telegraph
• Sharing of GP data for immigration tracking scaled back after government U-turn GPonline