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Aral Balkan

Wow… this is a mass-scale health data grab (DNA, etc.) by industry if ever there was one.

inkl.com/a/bvAAPoILNmL

Just look at how it’s funded and the people running it: ourfuturehealth.org.uk/about-u

Also looks like the Silicon Valley/Stanford/startup folks have finally well and truly got their nails into the NHS after constant lobbying and facilitated by folks (useful idiots or accomplices?) like NESTA.

CC @glynmoody

inklMillions invited to take part in world’s largest health research programmeOur Future Health plans to develop new ways to detect illnesses earlier and predict who is at higher risk of…

@aral indeed: "Our industry partners have agreed to make reasonable efforts to ensure that innovations developed using our resources are made available in the UK to benefit NHS patients." hardly a cast-iron promise....

@glynmoody “Reasonable efforts”… the corporate equivalent of “thoughts and prayers.”

@aral @glynmoody More like "Giving you something for free? Are you bonkers?"