NHS opt out of your personal data being sold to commercial institution

mattyfez

mattyfez

mattyfez

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I'm seeing conflicting info on this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10647031/NHS-medical-records-database-halted-amid-concerns.html

Of course I will opt out as I don't want my data sold, and possibly miss used.

However on the opt out form it states that:

NHS healthcare staff caring for you
may not be aware of your current
medications, allergies you suffer from
and any bad reactions to medicines
you have had, in order to treat you
safely in an emergency.

Here: http://www.nhscarerecords.nhs.uk/optout/optout.pdf

Anyone know more about this and what it means, my colleague just told me about it and I cant say I like the Idea.
 
My concern is it's not very anonymous:
Your date of birth, full postcode, NHS Number and gender

If this info fell into the hands of insurance companies (which I'd bet they would pay VERY handsomely for) they could work out who you are with the above info with hardly any effort at all.
What's to stop a foreign company like Pfizer for example, getting the data for 'research' and accepting a large back hander to hand the data over to some 'fall guy subsidiary' of some insurance conglomerate which will be shut down once the data is out?

I'm all for sharing the data within the NHS for improvement of treatment, but not just to be opted into this, it's all very sinister.

Big Pharma companies hardly have a very ethical track record when it comes to, well most things, really..
 
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