A No2ID press release today brings our attention to The Big Opt Out – a campaign against the national NHS database and the mass upload of patients details to the database without patients permission.
The Department of Health has instructed GP’s to upload patient details they hold – personal details, medical history, records of GP visits, etc – to the new database when it comes online without first obtaining the permission of the patients. Sensitive information such as terminations or mental problems are supposed to be able to be locked away in the database but that system isn’t being implemented straight away meaning all these details will be available to over a million NHS workers – including temporary workers and secretaries – and will be maintained by a private company based in Warwick.
All is not lost, however. You can instruct your GP not to upload these details using this form.
1984, more like 2006,7,8,9.
With labour in it’s always winter, they are just a bunch of sanctimonius, self righteous fuckwits, and I for one don’t believe that the Bliar is going to resign.