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GPs urged to refuse to hand over patient details to NHS Digital – The Guardian

Senior doctors call on colleagues not to share personal data, in effort to buy time to raise awareness of plans

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Senior GPs have called on colleagues to refuse to hand over patients personal data to NHS Digital, in a move they hope will buy time to raise awareness of plans to place all medical records in England on a central database.
All 36 doctors surgeries in Tower Hamlets, east London, have already agreed to withhold the data when collection begins on 1 July, the Guardian understands. An email has been circulated to about 100 practices across north-east London calling on them to also consider whether the…

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