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 have suspended controversial arrangements under which the NHS shared patients’ details with the Home Office so it could 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 charities warned that the practice was scaring some pa