NHS Database Opt out
markrpen | 06.06.2007 18:58 | Health
Not content with with bankrupting the NHS with PFI schemes aimed at lining private pockets( including a £12million consultancy bill not to build a hospital in Paddington Basin!) , fraudulent treatment targets, bailing out construciton firms,doctors and nurses without jobs, massive IT schemes wasting billions, doctors job applications on the net, closing hopsitals ( they are currnetly trying to close St Annes in haringey and the National Homepathic in Islington for instance not to mention the dozens of mental health units that have had the axe ) , paharmaceutical companies overcharging and other non pharmaceutical treatments sidelined e.g chronic back pain a big nationwide problem - watch out for side effects of the prescrivbed pills or see an osteopath ( but not on the NHS ), and ex-Arthur Anderson employee Patricia Hewitt refusing to leave. ( for more details read Private Eye )
The corporates rub their hands and people cannot get treated. the waiting lists are said to be falling but can you get onto the list?
Their is one list you may get on and given the records of private companies and data expect it to be used against you:- The NHS Care Records System. This is designed to be a huge national database of patient medical records and personal information (sometimes referred to as the NHS ’spine’) with no opt-out mechanism for patients at all. It is being rolled out during 2007, and is objectionable for many of the same reasons as the government’s proposed ID database ( or Oyster cards! )
Your medical confidentiality is at risk from this database, as over a million NHS employees central government bureaucrats will have access to not only your medical records but also your demographic details—name, address, NHS Number, GP details, phone number (even if it’s ex-directory) and mobile number.
The NHS Confidentiality Campaign has been set up to oppose this and has set up a site and various tools iuncluding an opt out letter for the various datastores including a Secondarey Uses Service database and the Population Demographics database.
http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org
Show patricia hewitt what you think - chuck her off a very tall building
The corporates rub their hands and people cannot get treated. the waiting lists are said to be falling but can you get onto the list?
Their is one list you may get on and given the records of private companies and data expect it to be used against you:- The NHS Care Records System. This is designed to be a huge national database of patient medical records and personal information (sometimes referred to as the NHS ’spine’) with no opt-out mechanism for patients at all. It is being rolled out during 2007, and is objectionable for many of the same reasons as the government’s proposed ID database ( or Oyster cards! )
Your medical confidentiality is at risk from this database, as over a million NHS employees central government bureaucrats will have access to not only your medical records but also your demographic details—name, address, NHS Number, GP details, phone number (even if it’s ex-directory) and mobile number.
The NHS Confidentiality Campaign has been set up to oppose this and has set up a site and various tools iuncluding an opt out letter for the various datastores including a Secondarey Uses Service database and the Population Demographics database.
http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org Show patricia hewitt what you think - chuck her off a very tall building
markrpen
Homepage:
http://www.nhsconfidentiality.or