The NHS’s controversial care.data programme has cost NHS England £1.3m to date, with the vast majority of the money being spent on “raising awareness” leaflets sent to millions of households in the UK.

The disclosure was made in a written response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Computing.

The request, made in March, asked how much the NHS has spent on the programme to date, and how much it intends to spend on care.data overall.

Reported by Computing News. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.