{"id":521,"date":"2015-06-11T08:42:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2015-06-08T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:44:05","slug":"medical-data-shared-against-peoples-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/medical-data-shared-against-peoples-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Data Shared Against People\u2019s Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Confidential medical information of around 700,000 patients is being shared, despite them opting out of the \u2018care.data\u2019 programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

The scheme aimed to collect medical data about patients throughout England in order to improve care standards.<\/span><\/p>\n

Patients had the opportunity to \u2018opt out\u2019, meaning information about them could not be shared with third parties at any point.<\/span><\/p>\n

The programme was aborted before its launch in March 2014 due to fears that those who objected would be denied access to medical screening and treatments.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, the information commissioner has continued to sell medical data to insurers and other parties.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has now been revealed that this includes data about the 700,000 patients who objected to the practice, regardless of their wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kingsley Manning, chairman of the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), has said the organisation \u201cdoes not currently have the resources or processes to handle such a significant level of objections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Peers have called for an official investigation into what they called a \u201cworrying situation\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

The HSCIC has admitted the issue \u201cmay take some time\u201d to resolve. <\/span><\/p>\n

Government minister Baroness Chishold said that \u201cin the interim, for anybody who has registered a data-sharing objection with their GP, the HSCIC has taken the practical decision not to collect any identifiable GP data about that person for purposes beyond their own direct care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Beth McCarron-Nash, from the General Practitioners Committee, described the situation as \u201ca mess\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

Medical negligence solicitors <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you would like to talk to a medical negligence solicitor about the care you have received from a GP, hospital or other medical professional, please contact us today. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Confidential medical information of around 700,000 patients is being shared, despite them opting out of the \u2018care.data\u2019 programme. The scheme aimed to collect medical data about patients throughout England in order to improve care standards. Patients had the opportunity to \u2018opt out\u2019, meaning information about them could not be shared with third parties at any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,530,532,529,531],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-care-data","tag-confidential-medical-data","tag-health-and-social-care-information-centre","tag-medical-data","tag-medical-data-information-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}