Your NHS Medical Records go on-line database

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Your medical records
Posted by: "Alliance of Registered Homeopaths"asrv25@dsl.pipex.com
Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:49 pm (PST)

Dear Colleagues,

This is the latest information relating to your medical records and the 'NHS
Spine', from Clifford Miller:

Please pass this on widely. If you are British act now before it is too late
for you.

The UK public, children, parents, grandparents and relatives face a new risk
of blackmail over fears of security over health records. The first
patients' electronic records have been uploaded to the new NHS online
database. NHS e-records >
programme launched - Monday 31/12/2007. British doctors and politicians are
concerned. " Fears over NHS >
e-records system" BBC 12 September 2007.

But you can avoid this by writing to your doctor and opting out of this new
scheme now being rolled out across the UK. Make sure you get confirmation.

Recent government data scandals include:-

* the loss of data on nearly half the UK population which included all
child benefit claimants, including dates of birth and home addresses, when
sent from a HM Revenue and Customs office to the National Audit Office. The
information on the discs was not encrypted.

* Government
>
offers reward in hunt for lost data - James Sturcke - The Guardian Wednesday
December 5, 2007

* 3 million driver records

* 'No > cover-up'
on lost driver data

* tens of thousands of patient records

* Primarolo
>
admits ignorance over data losses by nine NHS trusts - Minister does not
know exactly what is missing - Patrick Wintour, Guardian political editor
December 24, 2007

* Pension

l> details of 6,500 lost in new data fiasco" By Nick Allen and Gary Cleland
The Telegraph 19/12/2007

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