SPINE records to be given to Drug Trials

Filed under: Opting out — helen at 4:37 pm on Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Now the New Year is well and truly upon us it seems that the DH Connecting for Health IT project want to use patient SPINE records for drug trials. This would mean allowing the pharmaceutical industry, researchers and other private companies access to confidential patient medical records. Its very unclear whether the DH will be seeking patient consent before giving the confidential medical details of individuals to private companies and researchers.

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Helen Wilkinson

National Coordinator

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Comment by Dave

February 20, 2007 @ 16:51

Assuming all those that want access get access it means there will need to be ‘access controls’ for different Researchers, different drug compainies, different admin staff, different secretaries, different SUS staff, social services, different doctors, different nurses, the ‘audit police’ (this is people that will be looking at the audit trail to see who has been looking at what about each patient, something the patient will not be allowed to do)NHS administrators, GUM clinics, Pharmacist and proberbly the school nurse who will want access to help her. Have I missed anyone out?

With other databases, such as the child index, allowing the flagging of medical information, it seems the list is set to get even bigger. Soon it will be easier to say who cant access it as the list will be shorter.

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