Does the Health Care Bill permit medical research without patient consent?
17 November 2011
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The last Labour Government did it in spades and now the Coalition has followed suit. What is “it”? Why enacting legislation that grants Ministers wide ranging and unchecked powers concerning the processing of personal data of course. Don't worry: it's just our health records. About two weeks ago, a colleague at the British Computer Society asked me a simple question: “Does the Health and Social Care Bill, currently before Parliament, permit medical research without patient consent?”. Having waded through 400
