where do you sign?

[ramtops]

from today's Guardian

Millions of personal medical records are to be uploaded regardless of patients' wishes to a central national database from where information can be made available to police and security services, the Guardian has learned."

more scary stuff about who has access (250,000 people so far), etc., in the article.

write to your doctor, and to the Secretary of State for Health (Ms Spewitt, that is), with the wording in this piece (again from the Grauniad.

I shall be penning word-processing my letter today.

Comments

med records

[shortybabes.livejournal.com]

Given the stats on estimated damage due to lack of access to records or delayed access, I have to say I am fine with it. I'd far rather doctors were able to get access to the data if I'm in an accident in Wales, than not.

Where practical I believe there is pseudonymisation, but there are cost implications for every extra layer of security.