Posts by BarkingHatstand

Ill communication delays NHS England's GP data grab for six months

Re: donning my PPE...

>> Let me remind you that NHS care is free

But its not free, free at the point of use, but all uk tax payers pay for it.

I think most people would be happy for big data to be used for good, but soon as its sold for profit then other factors come in to play, and it can then be used against the common good.

I'm starting to see the British gov as another business analysing any opportunity to relieve me of more of my already taxed earnings or controlling what I care to do.

Media bias

I notice on Radio 4, it was repeatedly stated that all you were opting out of was sharing your information across NHS departments, which I imagine most people would be reasonably happy about, but there was absolutely no mention of data being used by third parties even if slightly anonymised. I can see that coming up to the new autumn deadline it will just get spun so that people are quite happy to automatically opt in without a second thought.