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17 February 2007. A2 sends:

Your correspondent seems confused. Moving a document within a website is not the same as "yanking" it.

It can still be found on the Information Commissioner's Website here:

http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/data_protection/practical_application/health_data_-_use_and_disclosure.pdf

16 February 2007

A sends:

It seems that the UK government's privacy watchdog has quietly removed from the web a guidance document on medical privacy, on which medics and patients had been relying since 2002. We don't know whether this is the harbinger of a change in policy. It may be relevant that our health service is bogged down in a massive computerisation project that's going wrong, and that's attracting serious criticism on privacy grounds.  Parliament's Health Committee has launched an enquiry into "The Electronic Patient Record and its use" and called for written evidence to be submitted by 16 March. It would be useful to people preparing evidence if the document were once more available online:

USE AND DISCLOSURE OF HEALTH DATA
Guidance on the Application of the Data Protection Act 1998
May 2002

http://cryptome.org/use-and-disclosure-of-health-data.pdf (33 Pages, 374KB)