A poll of doctors by the British Medical Association has revealed that nine out of ten doctors believe that patient medical data is not safe on the new on-line central data base (the Spine). Some of the individual doctor comments were:
“The BMA should immediately take out full-page advertisements in the national press informing patients that their health records are about to be placed on an unsafe system. The adverts should provide a cut-out form that patients can give to their GPs to opt out of this dangerous and inadequately secured system.”
“With the government’s recent underhand dealing with regard to general medical services contracts and the contracts of staff and associate specialist doctors, we might wonder whether it would have other uses for the information that might not be in patients’ best interests. Previous government guarantees of security have not been worth the paper they were written on.”
This Government lives in a virtual world when it comes to protecting its citizens personal data. It seems incapable of responding to feedback like, losing over half the populations personal data. They continue to spend billions in their march towards centralisation without accepting that the cock ups are just getting bigger.
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