The latest Health and Social Care Bill will declare the NHS Information Centre to be a “Health Professional” under the Data Protection Act 1998 and a “Health Service Body” under the Access to Health Records Act 1990. I presume this will stop them having to bother with pesky details such as anonymizing our records on SUS.

Euthanasia at last for the NHS National Programme for IT.

Why did it take so long? Why has Sir David Nicholson not been fired?

If anyone has given a witness statement to the police and they have requested your GP details please get in touch. We have discovered this is happening with Thames Valley Police over domestic violence type incidents. We would be very interested to know if this is happening across other police forces.

The NHS IT Programme is to be scrapped however the devil will be in the detail. The Guardian story is here The Daily Mail story is here