Targeted junkmail "from" your GP?

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <E933jbBZ2SZIFAAj@kalahari.uninhabited.net>, Roger Hayter
<roger@hayter.org> writes

>"Researchers will be able to use electronic patient records to make 
>patients aware of research trials that may be relevant to them,

whereas today they can merely search on clinicaltrials.gov  (though
of course there's a significant US bias to this)

>See the rest of the article (I trust my extract is fair use) for how 
>this will keep us competitive with the third world as a place to do drug 
>trials.

hmmm....   Alan Johnson also said

    "I want every patient in the NHS to have the right to take part
    in approved medical research that is appropriate to them, if they
    choose to."

I look forward to seeing the funding arrangements that ensures that
trials become so extensive that everyone can take part...

- -- 
richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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