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National Health Service organisations are individually accountable for their management of patient information and must comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 and common law confidentiality requirements. The sale of patient identifiable data, without patient consent, would be an unlawful act. Where data is brought together in large databases for purposes other than care - for example, commissioning and medical research \u2013 the Government intends to ensure that data will be handled in secure environments, for a limited range of approved purposes and under strict controls. The Government will shortly be consulting on the controls and safeguards that should be established to reassure patients and the wider public.<\/p>
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The Government has made changes through the Care Act to extend the role of the independent Confidentiality Advisory Group (CAG), which advises the Secretary of State and the Health Research Authority on non-direct care uses of confidential health data. The CAG can advise the Health and Social Care Information Centre and ensure, as outlined in the Care Act that there is a clear legal basis to support the disclosure of patient data and that data are only used for care related purposes.<\/p>
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