Sonnie Ekwowusi, a Legal Practitioner in Lagos, has an OpEd in TheGuardian (Lagos) that begins: It is no longer news that President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the National Health Bill 2014 (NHB 2014) into law. It is worthwhile to briefly recall that long before the said signing of the NHB 2014 Bill into law, the bill…
Category: Healthcare
UK: NHS care.data – a horribly botched operation
John Leonard reports: The care.data programme currently being piloted in a few hundred GP practices before a planned national rollout expands NHS England’s collection of medical data for analytical use. Since 1989 information on hospital stays has been collected for analysis and the new programme will extend this to cover data resulting from patients’ visits…