California SSN and Encryption

[Graham Murray]

Adrian Midgley <akm@92tr.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

> The NHS number is intended to be the single identifier for everyone - what 
> way that differs from a citizen ID number is an interesting hair to split - 
> in the NHS.

One difference is that there are people 'known' to the NHS who are not
UK citizens. For example, I have worked with citizens of other EU
countries who have been registered with a local UK GP. They had
national ID cards (and passports) as well as their NHS card.