Daily Archives: September 20, 2013


Madlen Davies writes in Pulse: An LMC is considering a county-wide boycott of the care.data extracts programme to raise awareness around their concerns, in a move NHS England said would be against the law. Northumberland LMC leaders said practices in the region are looking at ways to boycott the controversial programme, which is being introduced by NHS England and will see confidential information from GP records sent to the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) and shared with commissioners, private companies and researchers in either identifiable and de-identifiable forms. Practices in the region are concerned that allowing the extracts to happen would leave GPs vulnerable to legal action from patients under the Data Protection Act. However, NHS England said that failure to disclose the data will mean practices would be in breach of their statutory obligation under the Health and Social Care Act (HaSCA) to share confidential information with […]

GP leaders consider boycott of NHS England’s data extraction programme