Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

[Ian Batten]

> Mary Hawking
> PS anyone prepared to bet that the NHS number will become the ID  
> number? After all, that is where the old NHS number started... and  
> the systems are already there for the vast majority of the population.

Clearly there are people entitled to use the NHS who aren't in any way  
entitled to a UK ID card: French citizens, for example.  Are they  
allocated an NHS number for the duration of treatment, or is something  
else used?  I know PACS doesn't index images against NHS numbers for  
precisely this reason.  And are there any classes of people who will  
be entitled to a UK ID card but are _not_ entitled to NHS treatment?


ian