Missing data protection safeguards with respect to NHS Digital’s national database of medical records
4 June 2021
1 Comment
Like many, I did not know about the Ministerial Directions that require NHS Digital to create a national database of GP medical records until the indefatigable “Med Confidentiality” NGO raised its profile. In this blog, I will make some comments about data protection safeguards, most of them statutory, which appear to me to be missing. NHS Digital, at the behest of the Secretary of State for Health, has been given Directions to take copies of medical records from all GP surgeries in
