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Medical records appear to have been wrongly given to the insurance industry by the health service, the NHS admits.

Details on hospital admissions from 1989 to 2010 were handed to the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

The information was used to produce a report to help insurance firms price their products.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre, which runs the database of records, said "greater scrutiny" should have been applied.

The information given to the Institute contained details on treatments and diagnoses, age, the area the patient lived in, but not their names.

It was handed over in January 2012 and the Institute paid £2,220 to cover the Information Centre's costs in compiling the data.

The Institute is the professional body for actuaries, the risk experts who work forWASHINGTON – For one day at least, President Donald Trump is getting along great with the U.S. intelligence community – most of them anyway.

In announcing the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Trump praised the work of intelligence officials, a marked departure from his repeated criticism of the intelligence community over the Russia investigation.

"We had some incredible intelligence officials that did a great job," Trump said during remarks Sunday at the White House.

Yet while proclaiming "it's really a deserving name – intelligence," Trump also seemed to take a shot at certain unnamed leaders in what Washington refers to as the "intelligence community."

"I've dealt with some people that aren't very intelligent having to do with intel," Trump said.

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