Government removes data sharing clause from coroners’ bill
BMJ 2009; 338 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b1009 (Published 11 March 2009) Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1009- Zosia Kmietowicz
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Jack Straw, the UK justice secretary, is to abandon plans that could have allowed patients’ medical records to be used by third parties without patients’ consent.
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice said that the government still believed strongly in data sharing but had accepted the concerns of many critics that clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill was not the way forward.
Although the aims of the clause, which would allow data to be shared among government departments so that it was easy to identify, for example, children who were entitled …
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