article_snippet: Many of the patients used the Pharmacy 2U service because they were disabled or too ill to travel to they nearest surgery.
article_snippet: Others used the firm’s online doctor consultations.
article_snippet: Pharmacy 2U, an online prescription service, has sold patients information to marketing companies without marketing companies knowledge .
article_snippet: Pharmacy 2U, which is the country’s leading NHS approved online pharmacy, even gave the patients’ email addresses, dates of birth and date of the patients last prescriptions to a marketing firm.
article_snippet: MPs said Pharmacy 2U, which is the country’s leading NHS was putting thousands of patients at risk and should face a police probe.
article_snippet: Pharmacy 2U, which is the country’s leading NHS even gave the patients’ email addresses, dates of birth and date of the patients last prescriptions to firms .
article_snippet: When registering for online prescriptions, patients using Pharmacy2U have to agree to terms and conditions but these do not cover anything about patients using Pharmacy2U information being passed on to third parties.
article_snippet: Pharmacy2U admitted to the Mail that Pharmacy2U had sold the names and addresses of ‘up to 5,000’ patients on three occasions, refusing to say how much Pharmacy2U had charged.
article_snippet: Pharmacy2U said Pharmacy2U had decided to stop selling the information and stressed no medical data had been passed on.
article_snippet: Pharmacy2U should immediately be suspended as an approved distributor.
article_snippet: Jeremy Hunt must make an urgent statement to set out how widespread this practice is, whether there have been other breaches and what action is being taken against Pharmacy2U.’
article_snippet: Dr Sarah Wollaston, the outgoing Tory chairman of the health select committee, called for a criminal investigation into Pharmacy2U.
article_snippet: A spokesman for Pharmacy 2U said: ‘Only name and address information has been sold and no permission for any other data to be sold has been provided by Pharmacy2U.
highlights_snippet: Pharmacy 2U is the country's leading NHS approved online pharmacy .
  