Are you allowing your medical records to be hoovered up and shared outside the NHS?, If you don't opt out now, they will be (England only) |
Are you allowing your medical records to be hoovered up and shared outside the NHS?, If you don't opt out now, they will be (England only) |
Tue, 28 Jan 2014 - 17:18
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This is an entirely off-topic thread, except in that it involves government behaving like scumbags (again).
In the next few months the full medical records of every NHS patient in England will start being hoovered up directly from GPs' computer systems by an organisation called the Health and Social Care Information Centre. They "share" this information (including selling it), sometimes anonymised, sometimes not, not only within the NHS but also with outside organisations such as researchers and pharmaceutical companies. For your convenience the government has changed the law so that the Data Protection Act doesn't allow GPs any say in this and you will automatically be opted in unless you object.
Whether you are happy with this and think it's a great idea, or think it stinks to high heaven, I've met so few people who are aware of it that I think it's worth doing everything possible to let people know what's happening and what they can do about it. Once the data's uploaded you have no control over it, so you need to decide now. -------------------- Regards,
Fredd __________________________________________________________________________
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