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Drugs giants access your health records

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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…

Tories fail to build any of 200,000 homes promised in 2015

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National Audit Office says no starter homes have been built despite election pledge The then prime minister, David Cameron, in 2015 at the launch of the Conservative party manifesto in Swindon. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Successive Conservative governments have failed to deliver a single new “starter home” despite promising to build 200,000 by 2020, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has found. The party’s 2015 manifesto committed to building the homes across England to be sold exclusively to first-time buyers under the age of 40, to help young people take their first step on…