• UK Police trying to gain backdoor access to medical records
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[quote]The database that will store all of England's health records has a series of "backdoors" that will allow police and government bodies to access people's medical data. David Davis MP, a former shadow home secretary, told the Guardian he has established that police will be able to access the health records of patients when investigating serious crimes even if they had opted out of the new database, which will hold the entire population's medical data in a single repository for the first time from May. ... In the case of the police, officers will be able to request all of the medical data held for specific suspects with their correct identities, regardless of whether they had opted out. With a national database in place, the request only has to be considered by officials at the information centre, who will not know the patient personally.[/quote] [url=http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/police-backdoor-access-nhs-health-records]The Guardian[/url] I am massively against this, for obvious reasons. Private medical information should only be accessible with a court warrant, and the police should only be able to gain the strictly relevant parts when they do get a warrant. Specific parts of private medical information can be pretty damn easy to identify people with - with all the conditions one can have, they can be very specific. What I'm even more against is the selling of said personal info to third parties, though I do support the national database existing, especially if it makes it easier for mass epidemiological studies to be carried out.
Fuck this country.
fantastic, even if you opted out of the retarded scheme they didnt even bother informing people they could opt out of, your records will still be accessed by the police anyway not to mention that if you didnt opt out, corporations can access your medical records after they have been anonymised now. [editline]8th February 2014[/editline] First political party that promises to undo all of this shit gets my vote
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;43837988] First political party that promises to undo all of this shit gets my vote[/QUOTE] So, all of them then, since, you know, promising something is fucking easy, actually sticking to it is the difficulty and by that time they're already in power so they dont have to do jack shit.
[QUOTE=SeamanStains;43837988]fantastic, even if you opted out of the retarded scheme they didnt even bother informing people they could opt out of, your records will still be accessed by the police anyway not to mention that if you didnt opt out, corporations can access your medical records after they have been anonymised now. [editline]8th February 2014[/editline] First political party that promises to undo all of this shit gets my vote[/QUOTE] To put this into context, if I access medical information, I need to use the bare minimum possible, obtained on a need to know basis, keep it 100% confidential, and justify it. There are multiple guidelines (and rules) for a student to follow, [b]more[/b] for qualified healthcare professionals (trust level, NHS level, HCPC/GMC/NMC, society of what you are e.g. radiographer, radiologist, midwife, whatnot and so on, Caldicott principles, Information governance and probably more) and the police likely wouldn't be held to anything but their current standards. Healthcare info is supposed to be kept so tightly bottled up for good reasons, it's personal and any rational person wants theirs kept private. No-one wants their genital wart treatment known about!
That was not what I wanted when i went to get my prostate checked.
[QUOTE=orcywoo6;43837984]Fuck this country.[/QUOTE] Watch out bro, Theresa May might revoke your citizenship!
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;43841967]Watch out bro, Theresa May might revoke your citizenship![/QUOTE] Well its a shot at getting off this shitty island I guess. :v:
[QUOTE=orcywoo6;43837984]Fuck this country.[/QUOTE] The country's not the problem. Fuck the slimeballs who run it.
This'll happen in every country eventually. Governments around the world continue to praise "FREEDOM!" at every opportunity, but more and more of this keeps turning up. As a friend of mine said: "in the future, we'll all be watched 24/7"
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