Outsourcing giant Atos will be responsible for the removal of personal data from GP records under the NHS patient data-sharing scheme.

Under the service Atos will extract data from GP records which will then be linked with data from hospitals, creating a link between GP and hospital patient information and allowing for a more complete overview of a patient’s medical history.

Information which will be collected by the French outsourcing frim includes family history, diagnoses, prescription details and vaccination history.

The patient sharing scheme has been met with concern regarding data protection issues due to past breaches and issues regarding anonymised record sharing outside of the public sector.

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