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EU ministers back data privacy changes

The European Union has provisionally agreed changes to planned data privacy legislation that will make it easier to share data
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Survey shows readers wary on care.data

Around two thirds of respondents to EHI’s survey on care.data plan to opt themselves out of the data-sharing initiative.
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Care.data safeguards detailed

Patient identifiable information extracted as part of care.data will not be available via Section 251 requests while NHS England establishes
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SUS anonymisation described as trivial

Fresh questions have been raised over the anonymity of de-identified patient data provided through the NHS secondary uses service for
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Info revolution will ‘erode privacy’

Department of Health plans to give patients control of their records will erode patient privacy, a leading medical defence body
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