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Offline GordonA

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2013, 17:15:47 PM »
It's in the Daily Fail Mail.

It is therefore quite probably the pathetic offering of some hack that knows pandering to the neuroses of Middle Aged, Middle England is both profitable and laughable.

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2013, 17:29:58 PM »
It has NOT just been highlighted in the newspaper to which you allude, Menthol, The Guardian has also drawn attention the matter of Bupa gaining access to patients records, as has B.B.C. News, along with other news mediums. Whatever happened to the "Hippocratic Oath", sworn to by ALL doctors, worldwide. Labour sold the country's gold reserves, but the so-called "Coalition", is selling our Birthrights, what with this present disgusting idea, & also, the fact that future British born children will soon have, as Birth Certificates, a document which states that a child was born, NOT in Britain, but in Europe, that certificate bearing the flag of the European Union, & NOT the Royal Crest, as at present !
There are, at this moment in time, 55 agencies/companies, worldwide, who are allowed lawful access to N.H.S.(NOT private !!) patients records, for financial gain, is this deemed to be correct, & if so, by whom ??

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2013, 17:41:39 PM »
Absolutely disgraceful, what about patient confidentiality?  I am surprised that 38 degrees have not started a petition to have this blocked.

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2013, 18:40:06 PM »
Isn't this covered by the Data Protection Act?

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2013, 18:47:57 PM »
You beat me to it Cleo.  My thoughts exactly.

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2013, 18:50:24 PM »
I'll show you mine for 99p.  ;)

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2013, 18:54:25 PM »
The government have no right to take what I told my doctor in confidence and sell it. Not that anything I have told my quack is worth £1 anyway but that's a different matter.
This info WILL get into the wrong hands, next thing we will have companies contacting us trying to sell us stuff based on what they have gleaned from this data.

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Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2013, 19:11:44 PM »
It will make a change receiving calls trying to sell something that I need rather than double glazing or a PPI claim lol - seriously all info should be covered under the DPA

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Re: Government selling patients confidential Medical Records for £1.00 !!
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2013, 20:09:29 PM »
Okay, so I accept that this is probably probable.

Am I surprised? No. This is a regime where everything has a price. We're all for sale. We're all commodities.

Human dignity? Only if you have enough dosh to protect it with an expensive injunction.




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