Starmer Backs Digital Health Records Following Blair’s Call to Sell NHS Data

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to introduce NHS “patient passports” to provide an individualised digital record of confidential health information if Labour wins the forthcoming general election. He was speaking on a Times of London radio programme after the newspaper promoted the idea of digital health records in its own campaign, raising concerns in some quarters over data protection and privacy. Many are worried that such patient passports could be used to monitor whether or not people have had recommended vaccines after worldwide attempts in the last few years to restrict the civil rights of those who declined the COVID-19 jabs....