{"id":2723,"date":"2014-01-21T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2014-01-21T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T09:59:23","slug":"medical-information-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/01\/21\/medical-information-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Information for Sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Keith emailed me a week or so ago to tip me off about the government&#8217;s plans to allow private firms to access medical information. \u00a0It&#8217;s a story that has subsequently been picked up by \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<em>inter alia<\/em>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2014\/jan\/19\/nhs-patient-data-available-companies-buy\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>As with the last post I made here, I&#8217;m going to have to cry off from saying much in my own right &#8211; I&#8217;ve got lectures that need to be written, and I need at least to go through the motions of being competent &#8211; but I would draw your attention the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a href=\"http:\/\/philosophicalcomment.blogspot.se\/2014\/01\/uk-set-to-sell-out-its-populations.html\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;text-decoration: underline\">Christian Munthe&#8217;s take on the matter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Touch wood, I&#8217;ll be able to get back to more frequent blogging soon.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Keith emailed me a week or so ago to tip me off about the government&#8217;s plans to allow private firms to access medical information. \u00a0It&#8217;s a story that has subsequently been picked up by \u00a0&#8211;\u00a0inter alia\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The Guardian. As with the last post I made here, I&#8217;m going to have to cry off from saying [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2014\/01\/21\/medical-information-for-sale\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1240,968,511,2149,577],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-clinical-ethics","category-in-the-news","category-readers-queries","category-resource"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}