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It’s no secret. We all know we pay for the NHS through our taxes. But increasingly we’re also paying for health and care services with the invisible currency of our most sensitive personal data; our medical records.
As data companies insinuate themselves into every aspect of our private lives, in the global Information Gold Rush, we must ensure the founding principle of the NHS – healthcare for all, without discrimination, free at the point of delivery – does not fall prey to the curse of free services: “If you ain’t paying, you are the product.”
