Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it will consult patients before selling 1.1 million medical records to a private medical company. A deal was reached with Sensyne Health last November, but no transfer of data has so far taken place. |Privacy campaigners are disputing whether the data really is anonymised and are calling the plan an "invasion of privacy".
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