Health Service Record Confidentiality

[Mary Hawking]

Looking forward to 2.30 on Tuesday 25th? Health Select Committee first
evidence session on "the proposed care.data database"
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/h
ealth-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/cdd-2014/ 

Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to."  Mark Earles on Radio 4
blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ And Fred! 
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/freds-saying-you-just-dont
-get-it/  

-----Original Message-----
From: Theo Markettos [mailto:theom+news at chiark.greenend.org.uk] 
Sent: 23 February 2014 23:41
To: UK Cryptography Policy Discussion Group
Subject: Re: Health Service Record Confidentiality

In article <op.xaylly2dc3r7hz at thedell> you wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:44:00 -0000, Ian Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > It seems to be coming from all angles, doesn't it?
> >
> > I've just been putting together the letter opting me and my children out

> > of care.data, working
> > somewhat in the dark as I haven't received the much-bruited NHS  
> > publicity.
> 
> You do need to explicitly state the codes which should be entered into  
> your patient records.

There's now a handy unofficial optout website:
https://www.faxyourgp.com/

Theo