Health Minister Wants NHS Patient Data Sold for State Profit
The Financial Times reports Ahmed advocating for a 'central service' to cash in on medical datasets. This isn't groundbreaking; it's the logical conclusion of a system increasingly viewing public services as market commodities. Remember when the NHS was about care, not corporate opportunity? This 'cash in' mentality echoes decades of chipping away at public sector resources, preparing them for
private extraction. It's a familiar playbook: underfund, declare inefficient, then sell off assets—or in this case, personal health data—under the guise of 'efficiency' or 'benefit.' The real benefit, of course, is reaped by the government's balance sheet and the private corporations who'll buy this remarkably intimate data. One might wonder who profits most when health is treated like a stock
portfolio.