NHS will no longer have to share immigrants' data with Home Office

Exclusive: minister announces U-turn over key element in ‘hostile environment’ immigration policyMinisters are suspending controversial arrangements under which the NHS shares patients’ details with the Home Office so they can trace people breaking immigration rules.The government’s U-turn on a key element of its “hostile environment” approach to immigration came after MPs, doctors’ groups and health organisations warned that the practice was stopping so