Peers told to push for cut-price access to med tech developed with NHS data

Privatize the profits

Socialize the costs.

Reduced cost? It should damn well be free!

Public data?

There is an important difference between public data and data about 'The Public'. A lot of the data which the NHS holds is medical data relating to individuals, and it is this data which presumably makes up the bulk of the 'valuable' information. However, without explicit authorisation from every single person they want to sell the data on, they simply do not have consent to use it this way, either under the old DPA or the new GDPR. It is clearly a change in the data usage stated at the time of collection.

Both Dr Foster and CHKS are supplied NHS data, directly and indirectly, then sells the data back to them in the form of reports etc, for a not so unsubstantial amount. Yes I know this simplifies precisely what each company provides, but the essence is there.

Surely if would be better if the NHS brought this functionality in house!

Talk about selling the family-farm at rock bottom prices...

WTF? The NHS should price the data high and set strict terms. Meanwhile Government should fund the NHS instead by clamping down on questionable tax schemes by global corporations and the super-rich / elite.

Government should fund the NHS instead by clamping down on questionable tax schemes by global corporations and the super-rich / elite.

No way since the right wing parties moved from just being unpleasant to being actively evil.

Not the only way the NHS could help themselves.

There was mention the other day a dispute that the NHS had been "overcharged" £30m by a Canadian generic drugs company on a drug that had come out of patent.

The real questions that should be asked are about the buyers and why they paid, and continued to pay, such a high price when alternative suppliers, one at least in Germany, supplied the same drug at a considerably lower price.

NHS data? Can anyone clarify this.

I am repeatedly being told that GP's are private individuals/practices/businesses outside of being employed by the NHS.

Whilst they hold little data on me, who owns that? How/why do they pass it on to the NHS? At a charge?

Lease the data

Yes, on the face of it that seems weird, the lessor can just make/keep a copy. But the contract includes payment of royalties on any derived work using the data.

They are going to sell it anyway, so might as well sell it with contract clauses to get a future income stream from it.