"Independent Scheme Assurance Panel" report on ID cards published. - relevant to NHS?

[Mary Hawking]

>This is an official body tasked with monitoring the scheme, and their 
>report makes fascinating reading&
>
>http://www.ips.gov.uk/identity/downloads/ISAP_Annual_Report.pdf
>
>And a "Plain English" translation of it here:
>
>http://talk.guardian.co.uk/WebX?14@456.XJGMbkMrzyM@.77607ed8/61
>
>Dave.

Let's hope that the government pay attention - but as they have invested 
so much political capital, I doubt it!

<Rant> We have the same situation in the NHS: in the interests of 
sharing information to improve health care ( a worthy objective, 
surely?) CSC is introducing Detailed Care Records - locally inclusive 
records of all health care - GP, Community, mental health, hospital , 
one record per patient - without full consideration of how the thing 
would work, who would be responsible for what and how confidentiality - 
if the term means anything in this context - could be maintained. 
</rant>

I feel strongly about this -

http://shorterlink.co.uk/14241

but *have* amended to subject line!

Mary Hawking

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Mary Hawking