Care.data fiasco: HSCIC moves into damage limitation mode
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), the body tasked by the National Health Service (NHS) in England to set up the problematic Care.data patient database, has admitted it needs to "improve the transparency of its decision-making and build public trust in its actions."
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