Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors
Sam Smith, coordinator at health privacy campaign group MedConfidential, said:"The tender document shows only one data store, with all data held nationally by NHS England. NHS England could be honest about their intentions, but that requires them to admit the fictions that got the half a billion-pound budget approved in the first place."
As part of the FDP procurement, NHS England is also buying"Privacy Enhancing Technology" from a supplier independent of the platform provider. It has also promised to anonymize patient data on the platform. Lord Markham's insistence that no tech firms would be able to access patient information is also at odds with details given toin September last year. In the run-up to the expected start of the FDP procurement, in fact delayed until January, the official line was cloud and software providers would be able to access the data for technical reasons, but not be able to use it. One official likened it to using Microsoft Word online.
"The data processor must work within agreed contractual terms and cannot make decisions on further data use or sharing of that data without the agreement of the data controller – this means that they can only do what they are instructed to by the NHS data controller and cannot access, use or share data unless specifically instructed to do so." ®
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