NHS Database

Tony Blairs minions latest brainwave is to enter all your health records onto a national database. Below I have posted the contents of the NotoID newsletter I receive outlining what this is all about, and containing a link to download a letter to opt out, which your can present to your GP or family doctor;

PLEASE CONTINUE TO PROMOTE THE BIG OPT OUT

Thousands of people have already downloaded and used TheBigOptOut.org's[1] letter, and officials at Connecting for Health - the NPfIT division of the Department of Health - are making increasingly desperate and sometimes contradictory statements and claims. Lord Warner (only days after announcing his resignation) got a drubbing from Cambridge Professor of Security Engineering, Ross Anderson on the Today show, and Harry Cayton, CfH's 'patient tsar', just can't seem to understand why people won't take him at his word on the security of the system, and who will have access to your medical records, just weeks after DoH has gone back on its promise of a meaningful opt-out. Please write to your GP using the opt out letter on TheBigOptOut site, their handy form allows you to enter your details and then print off your own letter. In addition please tell all your friends about the opt out letter - the more of us that contact our GPs the more likely we are to succeed.References:
[1] The Big Opt Out has been formed in response to the fact that millions of personal medical records are to be uploaded, regardless of patients' wishes, to a central national database (the NHS spine). As the Guardian put it in November: "The NHS's centralised and computerised system 'Spine' poses a very real threat of breaches of confidentiality of health records and raises the spectre of other agencies getting a view too". It is likely that the NHS database will be linked to the National Identity Register via citizen's unique National Identity Register Number.

[2] The opt out letter is at www.TheBigOptOut.org/optoutletter