93C3
That's what you need to say to your GP. "Please 93C3 me, doctor".
93C3 is the health code for 'refuses consent to have health records transferred to central database'.
Might not work of course, since New Labour has announced that anyone objecting to their highly confidential medical data being uploaded to a central server will be ignored.
Never mind that the new data spine will be physically accessible to almost 1 milllion NHS workers. Never mind that the 'sealed envelopes' they say will protect sensitive information haven't been invented yet.
But that doesn't matter, they tell us, because the data being uploaded now in the pilot areas just contains medication and allergies.
So that's ok then.
For those of you planning to hack in to Tony Blair's medication list, lithium is a treatment for mania.
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It's worse than you say, Dr Rant. http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org This site gives extra details.I also came across this article in the http://www.hoolet.org.uk/41hoolet/kiddingScottish RCGP magazine Hoolet.
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,,1937018,00.html One Woman’s experience is given here.
The government seems unable to admit that there is a conflict between its Utilitarian (greatest good of the greatest number) wish to have easy access across the NHS to information, and the principles of data protection and confidentiality which are based on Kantian deontology. (Morality is based on our private duties to one another as individuals. The individual is an end in him or herself and not merely a means to another goal.)
This government’s modus operandi is authoritarian, (q.v threads on Mr Granger) and it is no surprise it wants a list of those who have dared to challenge the NHS spine. It wants only http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/386.html unknown citizens, against whom there is no complaint. It seems to have no concept of individual rights to privacy, which isn’t surprising for a bunch of former communists and socialists.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
I wonder why this computer security expert supports the ide of opting out of the NHS CfH spine?
Perhaps he knows some of the limitations of computer security systems.
http://www.fipr.org/
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/11/01/opting-out-of-the-nhs-database/
2 more useful links.
Why does the govt want the info? Is it planning a cull of some sort?
I think the government wants to take the information from GPs and put it on a central spine because this makes privatising GP services much easier.
They can then tell patients to see TescoDoc instead of their local GP.
Clinically the system is not very important.
http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2006/12/exclusive-press-stand-accused-of.html
More reasons for 93c3
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2512104,00.html
Alice Miles get the measure of the NHS spinetingler.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1976589,00.html
Professor Ross Anderson tells it how it is.
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