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5 October 2023

Privacy groups focus on national data opt-out as FDP tender concludes

As NHSE prepares to award a £480m contract to deliver the FDP, legal groups and data privacy activists are focused on
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22 May 2023

NHS England says all NHS trusts and ICSs to get an FDP instance 

Every hospital trust and integrated care system may get its own local version of the proposed new FDP that can
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22 June 2021

Data strategy: Put NHS patients ‘ahead of demands for profit’

Patient groups and privacy campaigners have raised concerns over who will have access to the data under the government's draft
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27 May 2021

New data collection service could ‘destroy’ patient trust

Concerns have been raised about a new data collection service which claims to give researchers faster access to pseudonymised patient information.
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NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app
2 July 2020

Experts react to government’s U-turn on contact-tracing app

Industry leaders said the government should ensure ethics and privacy are “correct by design” in its new contact-tracing app.
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7 May 2020

Data from NHS contact-tracing app ‘to be kept for research purposes’

NHSX has always maintain that data would be deleted if a user chose to remove the app, but a spokesperson
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Mustafa Suleyman Deepmind
20 March 2017

Big Read: What does Google DeepMind want with the NHS?

The world's most famous AI company, Google DeepMind, is making plenty of friends in the NHS. But what does the
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6 December 2016

NHS Digital sees off patient privacy challenge

NHS Digital has seen off a challenge to the way its anonymises millions of patients’ data, with a verdict finding
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26 September 2016

Data breaches ongoing as NHS Digital pushes opt-outs

Patients who opted out of sharing their data beyond direct care have not yet had their wishes respected, as NHS
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4 August 2016

Care.data: gone but not forgotten

Care.data has been officially dead for more than a month, but its legacy is far from buried. Ben Heather takes
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