Tool to backup, modify and clone ePassport released

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <4fe96cc36crl.hird@orpheusmail.co.uk>, Roger Hird
<rl.hird@orpheusmail.co.uk> writes

>In article <Sca+ujAiEH6IFw56@tigers.demon.co.uk>,
>   Mary Hawking <maryhawking@tigers.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> anyone prepared to bet that the NHS number will become the ID number? 
>
>Well when I was briefly involved in the e-government initiative as long
>ago as 1997 there was discussion of the role of a national identity
>database and, of existing systems, the NHS number was thought to be the
>best starting point. 
>
>> After all, that is where the old NHS number started... 
>
>Indeed!  Just checked my 1944 identity card and it is indeed the same
>number.

Up to a point...

Yes the number on your ID card (or if not quite as old, such as myself,
the number on your ration book) was once the same as your NHS number.

However, a new numbering system was rolled out in 1996 or so, which is a
9 digit number plus a check digit

 http://www.nhs.uk/aboutnhs/TheNHSNumber/Pages/TheNHSNumber.aspx

 http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/nhsnumber/staff

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

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