‘Millions of NHS medical records were sold to 178 firms including five insurance companies without sufficient checks, health officials admitted yesterday.
The ‘intensely private’ information includes dates of birth, postcodes and diagnoses and was used for such things as calculating insurance premiums.
Incredibly, the details of up to 1.3million patients effectively went missing on at least two occasions because no record was kept of which firms they were given to.’
Read more: Millions of NHS records sold to 178 private firms: And officials don't even know where details of 1.3m patients ended up
