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The government is trying to get its hands on the personal details of millions of patients’ GP appointments.
The government has written to the companies who provide IT for GPs to ask them to help it obtain the date, time and duration of each appointment for 18 million patients, including the “reason” for each appointment, and the gender, year of birth and most of the postcode for each patient. It wants the details for every appointment in the last two years, as well as all appointments going forward.
