Fury as Tories team up with Google to let patients read medical records online

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Tory plans to hand medical records over to Google and Microsoft could put personal information at risk, campaigners warned yesterday.

The Conservatives say the internet service will give patients greater freedom over health data, allowing them to check and even edit their NHS record online.

But critics, backed by the British Medical Association, claim the information could be vulnerable to hackers and the plan would make it harder for doctors to access information in an emergency.

Former shadow home secretary David Davis, now a privacy campaigner, has said Google was ‘the last company’ he would trust with sensitive data.

Questions have also been raised over whether Conservative leader David Cameron is too close to the company. His adviser Steve Hilton is married to Rachel Whetstone, Google’s vice president of global communications and public affairs. Read full article…

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