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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionLegal threat sharpens over UK government plans to harvest patient data from GPsopenDemocracy and campaigners threaten injunction over the largest seizure of personal medical records in NHS...
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Published in: ourNHS: AnalysisMatt Hancock has quietly told your GP to hand over your health data. Why?If you live in England, all your encounters with your GP – information about your physical, mental and sexual health...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisThis should be the social care election – why is it being treated as anything but?Some 30,000 died of COVID in England’s care homes. Yet with few understanding councils and the care system, social...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: AnalysisOn eating disorders, it's time to stop talking and start actingIn the UK, many people are missing out on potentially life-saving treatment because of chronic underfunding and...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhat Cameron and the Greensill app tells us about NHS digital privatisationGreensill’s app may appear an obscure product for Cameron to stake his reputation on. But it is emblematic of the...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWe’ve won our lawsuit over Matt Hancock’s £23m NHS data deal with PalantirAnd here’s what needs to happen now
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Published in: digitaLiberties: OpinionFive reasons to worry about ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir handling your NHS dataSince the British government won't tell us, we can only guess what they’re up to…
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWhy we’re suing over the £23m NHS data deal with PalantirThe UK government is battling ‘vaccine hesitancy’. How does sneaking through a massive deal with a controversial spy...
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Published in: 50.50Higher risks, little support: Giving birth while Black and Asian in COVID-19 EnglandWomen of colour are at higher risk of dying in childbirth and because of coronavirus. But the NHS has been slow to respond.
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationStay at home with no money for 2 weeks before hospital treatment, NHS patients toldopenDemocracy has uncovered a major new flaw in sick pay rules. Medics and experts slam the government for not...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationFresh concerns over privacy and profit in NHS COVID data dealsDocuments released to openDemocracy suggest tech firms will profit from controversial deals – and that government...
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Published in: ourNHSUnder pressure, UK government releases NHS COVID data deals with big techHours before openDemocracy was due to sue, government releases massive data-sharing contracts with Amazon,...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionWe must be told what Cummings and Palantir are doing with NHS dataWhy is a firm backed by the CIA, and founded by a Trump-supporting billionaire, getting access to a massive store of...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionPandemic politics, oligarchic times and the idiotic subject of ‘freedom’To radically transform our way of life we need to construct the public spaces at all levels in order to have a...
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Published in: ourNHSWe need urgent answers about the massive NHS COVID data dealWhy is the UK government refusing to release details of its ‘unprecedented’ data transfer to US tech giants? If we...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government preparing to fight costly negligence claims over NHS staff deathsRevealed: Hancock’s £60,000 scheme for bereaved families will accept ‘no liability’ for deaths – as lawyers warn...
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Published in: ourNHS: OpinionTories target Northern voters with NHS message all about blaming migrantsA shocking leaflet sent out in Tory/Labour battlegrounds has “racist undertones”. NHS workers and experts call it...
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Published in: ourNHS: InvestigationThe President, the US private health giant, and top NHS officials – special relationships?US private healthcare firm Optum has been ‘planting seeds’ in the English NHS for a decade, new research exposes.
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Published in: ourNHSStriking to stop the NHS and outsourcing firms exploiting migrant workersMigrant workers are too often treated as second class workers despite doing vital NHS jobs. They are fighting back...
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Published in: ourNHSHow NHS staff are fighting back against the ‘hostile environment’The Daily Mail's claims of our success are sadly premature - but the "patients not passports" campaign is indeed growing.
