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UK: NHS Confidentiality, or not…

Posted on April 3, 2008October 24, 2024 by Dissent

Seen at the Fortuzero blog:

The NHS Confidentiality campaign was set up to protect patient confidentiality and to provide a focus for patient-led opposition the government’s NHS Care Records System. This system 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.

YOUR PRIVACY

Your medical confidentiality is at risk from this new database, as over a million NHS employees and 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.

Read more at Fortuzero  and see the site they link to, TheBigOptOut.org, for more info.

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