NHS threatened with legal action over £480m patient data platform Campaign groups acting on behalf of doctors and patients have threatened legal action over NHS England’s procurement of a £480 million ($582 million) “federated data platform”, as questions about patient consultation and compliance with data protection law remain unanswered. Lawyers acting on behalf of The Doctors’ Association …
Still selling the UK by the pound.
It has been coming for a long time now.
Have a read here: 'Direct Democracy: An Agenda For A New Model Party'
From p.78:
“Our ambition should be to break down the barriers between private and public provision, in effect denationalising the provision of health care in Britain"
The Conservative screed was co-authored by Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan, Greg Clark, David Gauke, and Kwasi Kwarteng.
Published in 2005, 18 years ago.
Can anyone say they are surprised at what is going on?
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"Published in 2005, 18 years ago."
It'd be interesting to get a frank and honest answer from them to the question "Do you still believe that". Politicians have been known to change their views. Sometimes on a whim, sometimes in an attempt to gain votes and sometimes, though rarely, because they realised they were wrong. 18 years is quite a long time and most of those named have changed their positions on other policies.
Stop worrying, its the NHS, UKGov, Mega Corps USA and their spying cousins, what can possibly go wrong, not like we have a working GDPR/DPA laws with the USA holding our data, recourse in US law courts if they get it wrong and no track record of everything going titsup and over budget ? Smile and enjoy knowing that they will probably know when your going to catch something, when not to insure you and even better how long they can tax you before you die.
I put my name on their mailing list, so they tell me about other campaigns and ask for money.
But they have no campaign info website and I got no answer when I asked for a form letter to send to my GP.
I did write to my GP in November and a month later demanded an acknowledgement, but I have still had no substantive reply.
Does anyone know of a coordinated campaign website?
I'm interested too. I found this No Palantir in Our NHS, which I assume is not the mailing list you subscribed to, although it is a Foxglove initiative. I hope that helps a bit. I will continue to dig.
[Edit: regarding your GP, make it a GDPR/DPA SAR (Subject Access Request), they'll be legally accountable then.]
"I did write to my GP in November and a month later demanded an acknowledgement, but I have still had no substantive reply."
Probably because your GP knows even less about it than you do and s/he is probably quite busy being overworked by more patients than the practice can actually handle.
Quote: "...........pseudonymized data still counts as personal data, requiring consent before sharing....."
Yup....true.....but obviously Google/DeepMind and the Royal Free Hospital are EXEMPT:
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/03/google-deepmind-16m-patient-royal-free-deal-data-protection-act
Yup.....six years......no consent......1.6 million medical records.........no penalty for complete 100% avoidance of GDPR.......
More of the same to come with Palantir..................
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