Re: Government plans to share NHS patient details with private sector 'rings alarm bells'

Re: Government plans to share NHS patient details with private sector 'rings alarm bells': In addition to the well-founded concerns over whether such data will remain private or will be sold on, much as credit card and password details are sold internationally by criminals, does going down this path mean that some hospital patients will now unwittingly be part of medical trials for which eg students have been paid in the past? -- Trials that have in some casese led to death or serioius health effects in previously healthy young paid volunteers. If a consultant suggests a patient needs a "cutting edge drug treatment" will the patient be told the subtext where necessary in terms of trials/financial trannsactions/risks etc?is sometimes only years after a new drug is introduced that sometimes fatal impacts are known and the drug withdrawn. Guinea Pigs R Us

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