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NHS Database coming to your GP

Dr Dr | 10.03.2010 22:10



The Department of Health is trying to roll out the Summary Care Record to millions of patients before the next election. Doctors’ leaders are alarmed. Patients are being misinformed, and opt-out is being made difficult. In the pilot areas, seven out of ten patients are unaware that an SCR was created for them. The patient information packs don’t contain an opt-out form; you’re supposed to phone the call centre for one.


Patients Unaware As Health Records Go Online

2:00pm UK, Wednesday March 10, 2010

Lulu Sinclair, Sky News Online
Patients' confidential medical records are being put online without their knowledge, according to the British Medical Association.

The database is needed, the DoH says, in case of emergency

Patients were supposed to have been given 12 weeks' notice of the move so they could opt out if they wished.

Otherwise, the Summary Care Record - which stores every patient's details on a giant NHS database - operates on a "consent to view" model.

The details will then be available for emergency and unscheduled care.

However, the BMA says because patients have not been told of the latest developments, details are being uploaded without the individual's knowledge, and possibly against their wishes.

The BMA is calling on the Government to delay the project.

There have been constant problems with the £11bn building of the computer system and doctors say the whole process is being carried out too quickly.

Patients' right to opt out is crucial, and it is extremely alarming that records are apparently being created without them being

Dr Dr
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Prying eyes.

11.03.2010 10:30

Just who will get access to this database will be interesting. Rumour has it that Plod and Security services will get into it, no problems. They may well access medical information on computer now.

Quacky


To quacky...

11.03.2010 12:48

Yes they do get your info from the NHS already.

They have people working in drugs projects, masquerading as councillors but who are aggressive and only want names of dealers etc [especially those who are Somali, Bengali, or connected to political groups]. Turning Point has been complained about by clients who have said that they have had to wait weeks to see a worker and then when they finally got to see someone it was a man who acted like the police and who probably was. A councillor [cop] working there had asked overly firmly for names and details of dealers. When the same councillor [cop] was told that a client was being harrassed by the police he told the client that the client had "mental health problems" and that he would refer the client to a pyschiatrist. He said that he would have to sit in on the sessions. When the client spoke to other workers at the project and his GP he was told that the drugs worker [cop] had no authority to do this and that they couldn't understand what the hell was going on with this guy. The drugs worker [plod] also told the client that he "does home visits" and "could take photos in the clients home" so that he "could speed up repairs in his flat with the council"...again he had no authority to do this and then claimed he hadn't said it. Unfortunately when you are dealing with vulnerable clients / drug users etc it's hard for the client to prove things and easy for them to be discredited or dismissed.

They can get to your GP and find out anything "for your own good" if you are political...they have made stupid claims that they are "worried" about someone to obtain medical records and info. They will claim that they think that you have "mental health problems" if they have been acting illegally. If you are being harassed by the police or security services [especially if it's the security services who act in secret] they want to know what you are saying [you're just "paranoid", "mad" etc etc] and want any info that they can use against you.

The database just makes things easier for them. "1984" here we are. This is the slide into a nazi fascist state. The Gestapo used the German equivalent of the Department of Health to torture people. When you are up against a huge state machine too it is easy for them to dismiss our fears, claim that it's not going on ...[for now]....until which point they will have so much control it will become irrelevant as it became in nazi Germany, Stasi East Germany and so on.

These controls are becoming are getting worse and it's happening very quickly. It's a horrible thought that one might not to be able to trust doctors any more...and never believe that they are not open to corruption already..there might be plenty who sell information [or get caught self medicating] and inform to the police about activists, political dissidents, "extremists" etc.

anon


its got major problems

11.03.2010 19:23

I had a serious diagnosis in scotland who refused to enter it onto the english computer system, even though they had access to my records.

Same goes for Wales, Northern Ireland, military hospitals, EU hospitals, private hospitals.

EDS should be sacked!



& all million NHS staff have unlimited access to all data.

r


On the square.

12.03.2010 14:39

Thanks to anon for the information which was pretty much as I had expected.

I have been told that Plod and the SS can access anything held on computer about individuals personal data.

Big brother is watching you and hacking into all your information whilst they are at it.

I have experienced problems with doctors who are Freemasons who will disclose information to other Brothers without a second thought for confidentiality.

Quacky