Drugs giants access your health records

The Guardian Experts say information sold on by Department of Health and Social Care can be traced back to individual medical records The Department of Health and Social Care has been selling the medical data of millions of NHS patients to American and other international drugs companies having misled the public into believing the information would be “anonymous”, according to leading experts in the field. Senior NHS figures have told the Observer that patient data compiled from GP surgeries and hospitals – and then sold for huge sums for research…