It has NOT just been highlighted in the newspaper to which you allude, Menthol, The Guardian has also drawn attention the matter of Bupa gaining access to patients records, as has B.B.C. News, along with other news mediums. Whatever happened to the "Hippocratic Oath", sworn to by ALL doctors, worldwide. Labour sold the country's gold reserves, but the so-called "Coalition", is selling our Birthrights, what with this present disgusting idea, & also, the fact that future British born children will soon have, as Birth Certificates, a document which states that a child was born, NOT in Britain, but in Europe, that certificate bearing the flag of the European Union, & NOT the Royal Crest, as at present !
There are, at this moment in time, 55 agencies/companies, worldwide, who are allowed lawful access to N.H.S.(NOT private !!) patients records, for financial gain, is this deemed to be correct, & if so, by whom ??