Confidentiality policy threatens UK cancer registries
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK's cancer registries face inevitable collapse if the medical community adopts new confidentiality guidelines, warns the UK Association of Cancer Registries (ACR). The General Medical Council (GMC) has stipulated that "the automatic transfer of personal information to a registry - before informing the patient - is unacceptable save in the most exceptional circumstances."