Stolen medical data from 500,000 NHS patients has gone up for sale on a Chinese website just a year after the Mail revealed it could be abused by Beijing for bioweapons.
There were calls for an inquiry on Thursday after it emerged that confidential NHS medical details had been offered for sale within months of Chinese researchers being granted access to the sensitive information.
Last year, there was outrage when plans emerged to give Chinese researchers access to GP records of 503,000 volunteers who are part of the UK Biobank, a research hub that makes ‘de-identified’ data available to universities, scientific institutes
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