‘Patients do not trust the Government over the future of medical records because they have been lied to about NHS plans in the past, health service leaders have said.
Plans to extract patient data from GP files have been put on hold for six months amid concerns about confidentiality and criticism that the national data-sharing scheme has been poorly communicated.
At a conference in Manchester NHS leaders suggested that public lack of confidence in the project reflected a wider mistrust of Government – caused by ministers’ failures to keep other promises.’
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Or could it be due to : NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says
‘A prominent Tory MP on the powerful health select committee has questioned how the entire NHS hospital patient database for England was handed over to management consultants who uploaded it to Google servers based outside the UK.
Sarah Wollaston, who practised as a family doctor and is now a Conservative backbencher, tweeted: “So HES [hospital episode statistics] data uploaded to ‘google’s immense army of servers’, who consented to that?”
The patient information had been obtained by PA Consulting, which claimed to have secured the “entire start-to-finish HES dataset across all three areas of collection – inpatient, outpatient and A&E”.
The data set was so large it took up 27 DVDs and took a couple of weeks to upload. The management consultants said: “Within two weeks of starting to use the Google tools we were able to produce interactive maps directly from HES queries in seconds.”‘
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