> NHS Care.data PR Fiasco Continues as Google Pulls Out of Secret Deal
[DATE: 27/03/2014 09:19]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
First the NHS was forced to delay its care.data project (storage of all patient GP health data in a central data warehouse) for six months; then it was learned that PA Consulting had obtained 27 DVDs of hospital event statistics (HES) and uploaded them to Google cloud (followed by a complaint being raised with the ICO); and now Google has pulled out of search discussions with the NHS because it is 'too toxic'.