A rock and a hard place? Ministry of Defence | Defence News | MOD confirms loss of recruitment data

[Peter Fairbrother]

M J D Brown wrote:
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> From: "Adrian Midgley" <amidgley2@defoam.net>
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> Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: A rock and a hard place? Ministry of Defence | Defence News 
> | MOD confirms loss of recruitment data
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>> Jul Kornbluth wrote:
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> The process of opting out is easy.  Just ask your GP.
>> Please don't.  We like doing medicine and have plenty of it to do.
> 
> Pedantically, if the GP is releasing our data for the NHS to sell 
> commercially to drug and insurance companies for 'research', then its 
> Principal is at least partly accountable, for any privacy breaches that 
> may occur.  In practice, I think Jul Kornbluth's intent was perfectly 
> clear in using the term 'GP' as shorthand for the collective 'General 
> Practice' entity comprising one or more physicians, practice nurses, 
> health visitors, receptionists, and records clerks, etc.  Not all these 
> categories of personnel are necessarily present in all practices, of 
> course.  I think most readers of this list would expect to address their 
> questions about data release to the duty receptionist in the first 
> instance.

There could be situations where you might want only one Doctor to know, 
and not the rest of the Doctors or practice staff.

-- Peter Fairbrother