24 Şubat 2014 Pazartesi

Patient data must not have been sold, NHS admits

Individuals in charge of the new scheme have repeatedly insisted that information held in the new giant database would by no means be utilized for insurance purposes, stating that any this kind of actions would represent a criminal offence.


Last evening a spokeswoman for the Overall health and Social Care Data Centre (HSCIC), which is now in charge of NHS information, mentioned its predecessor physique was wrong to sell the info to the insurance market.


The £2,220 obtain in 2012 was manufactured by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries – a specialist entire body for professionals who function for insurance coverage and investment organizations. It was then handed to one more society for actuaries, which published advice on how to “refine” critical illness cover.


The spokeswoman for HSCIC explained: “The HSCIC believes higher scrutiny need to have been utilized by our predecessor body prior to an instance exactly where data was shared with an actuarial society.”


“We would like to restate that complete postcodes and dates of birth had been not supplied as portion of this data and that it was not used to analyse personal insurance premiums, but to analyse general variances in essential sickness,” she extra.


The organisation said it would publish details of the bodies to whom it supplies this kind of information later this 12 months.



Patient data must not have been sold, NHS admits

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