article_snippet: Andy Burnham, Labour's health spokesman, has described this as an 'extremely serious matter' The details sold to Alchemy Direct Media by Pharmacy 2U, which has a turnover of £17million a year appear to have been passed on without the proper consent of patients.
article_snippet: But Andy Burnham, Labour’s health spokesman, said: ‘This is an extremely serious matter.
article_snippet: ‘Jeremy Hunt has failed in Jeremy Hunt primary duty to protect vulnerable patients.
article_snippet: ’ Andrew Percy, a Tory member of the Commons health select committee, said:
article_snippet: ‘People access NHS services with an expectation that everything about NHS services will be private.
article_snippet: ’ Tory MP Charlotte Leslie, who sat on the Commons health select committee, said the fact that NHS patients’ details were sold on was ‘incredibly concerning’.
article_snippet: ’ Tory MP Charlotte Leslie, who sat on the health select committee said that firms should not be selling data without ‘people’s explicit knowledge and firms explicit consent.
article_snippet: Yesterday Christopher Graham praised the Mail’s investigation and rubbished the firms’ claims that people ‘opted in’ to having people ‘ medical details sold on.
article_snippet: Christopher Graham said: ‘