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“Better information means better care,” says a leaflet put through the front door of England’s 22 million households. As a general proposition this is unexceptionable, even trite: nobody’s going to argue that ignorance is bliss. And most people, when the proposition is put to them, agree that the sharing of medical records in an anonymised form can produce results that justify the small risks of disclosure of an individual’s personal data.

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