We’ve been getting two calls a minute following major coverage in the Telegraph on Sunday. Dr James le Fanu’s column was entitled “If we starve it of information, we could still kill off the Government’s ’stealth’ database.” Unfortunately the puiece has not appeared online, so I will summarise it here.

He starts by recounting how essential trust is to GPs, and how easy it is to damage (even by rumour). He goes on to welcome the news that the scheme will be six years late, mentions that he does not recall getting any letter from the Department offering him an opt-out of “this profoundly misconceived scheme”, and points out that the latters are not addressed personally but to “the occupier”. He argues that the real agenda is to abolish the traditional GP surgery in favour of polyclinics, and calls on his readers to “scupper the scheme in its entirety” by registering their refusal to have their records uploaded.