Plans for digital NHS tag for overseas patients cause migrant privacy concerns

Plans for digital NHS tag for overseas patients cause migrant privacy concerns

Doctors say proposals will make it difficult to reassure trafficking victims and asylum seekers ‘hospitals are safe places’

Plans to create a new digital tag for the records of NHS patients from overseas has caused concern among doctors, as well as privacy and migrants’ rights campaigners.

A new data category called Overseas Visitor Charging would be created in national NHS records under proposals the Labour government has inherited from its Conservative predecessor.

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