http://www.thebigoptout.com Protect your privacy and campaign to preserve medical confidentiality Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:45:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.thebigoptout.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-53 Bel is thinking : Blog Archive : How to opt-out of the NHS database Sun, 17 Dec 2006 14:06:01 +0000 http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?page_id=9#comment-53 [...] He drew my attention to the NHS Confidentiality Campaign.  The aim of the campaign is ‘to protect patient confidentiality and to provide a focus for patient-led opposition the government’s NHS Care Records System’. Their website, titled The Big Opt Out, gives very useful information about what parts of the system you can opt out from, and how to go about the process. One of the things you must do is write to your GP, if you want to prevent your details being uploaded automatically to the NHS ’spine’. The website has a sample opt-out letter you can send to your GP, which you can create on the site by entering your details. [...] [...] He drew my attention to the NHS Confidentiality Campaign.  The aim of the campaign is ‘to protect patient confidentiality and to provide a focus for patient-led opposition the government’s NHS Care Records System’. Their website, titled The Big Opt Out, gives very useful information about what parts of the system you can opt out from, and how to go about the process. One of the things you must do is write to your GP, if you want to prevent your details being uploaded automatically to the NHS ’spine’. The website has a sample opt-out letter you can send to your GP, which you can create on the site by entering your details. [...]

]]> http://www.thebigoptout.com/?page_id=9&cpage=1#comment-30 TheBigOptOut « My 2p Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:47:53 +0000 http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?page_id=9#comment-30 [...] About 50% of family doctors are not convinced about either the need nor the security of the new system, so much so that they do not intend to automatically upload their patients records, in direct defiance of government instructions. However the only way to have any real chance of not having your details put onto the database is by sending your GP an opt-out letter, which can be found at the campaign site here. [...] [...] About 50% of family doctors are not convinced about either the need nor the security of the new system, so much so that they do not intend to automatically upload their patients records, in direct defiance of government instructions. However the only way to have any real chance of not having your details put onto the database is by sending your GP an opt-out letter, which can be found at the campaign site here. [...]

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