Proposals to expand Central NHS Register creates a national population register and significant data protection/privacy risks
14 January 2015
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[Note added 17/3/2017: The proposal is no longer going ahead: See Question S5W-07384 of 21/02/2017 "Ministers have listened carefully to the arguments" …and do not intend to take forward the proposal.] I thought the idea of a centralised, national population register was well and truly dead? Well the Holyrood SNP Government wants to resurrect a Scottish version. The Scottish Government’s plans are outlined in a document entitled “Consultation on proposed amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006”. The
