Alex Matthews-King reports:
The NHS’s information centre will have to contact potentially millions of patients who have opted out of care.data informing them they will not receive services such as e-prescribing, bowel screening, e-referrals or e-pathology reporting when the scheme goes live.
In a letter submitted to the commons health committee, the Health and Social Care Information Centre explains that patients had been unaware that opting out of allowing HSCIC to share data meant they would not be contacted about screening programmes or be able to use services that require data sharing, such as e-prescribing.
As a result, it will have to contact patients to inform they they must remove their objections to data being shared at that level if they want to receive these services, but they will still be able to opt out of allowing their practice to share data.
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So you have to be willing to share your data to get services? Is that extortionist or is it just the reality that if you don’t agree to share, they’d have no way to figure out to contact you or to provide info to the service responsible for e-prescribing, etc.??