NHS Digital

David Cameron's Government had the idea of scraping everyone in England’s entire GP records
including everything from mental and sexual health, abuse, criminal records, ethnicity, gender, drug and alcohol history and putting them on one central database, where they would be semi anonymized and then made available for research purposes to third parties, including private corporations.
It failed because privacy campaigners, worried doctors and some MPs found it both ethically and technically dodgy as hell and the Government backed down and never mentioned it again, or at least not for eight years because it’s doing the same thing under the cover of a global pandemic without any consultation or endorsement by the British Medical Association nor the Royal College of GPs and a deadline of 23 June for patients to opt out although most don’t even know about it.
The data NHS Digital will store is pseudonymised, and it says it’ll only be shared with commercial third parties for “research and planning purposes”although that comes with the caveat that it can be unpseudonymised 'in certain circumstances, and where there is a valid legal reason'.
Should you feel that a UK Government which has been scandalously incompetent and is facing a lifetime of inquiries into corruption is not the best people to be trusting your medical data with and would like to opt out, here’s where to go.
If you think there is nothing to worry your pretty little head about, you can do nothing and be the recipient of some brilliant emails and letters from medical companies keen to hock you relief from whatever you told your doctor in strict confidentiality ails you.