CLAIMS that thousands of people were to shun a Bolton scheme to keep patients' medical records online have been denied by the Government.
Well they would, wouldn't they.
Reports had suggested around 200,000 people in five pilot areas were set to opt out of the summary care record system which would allow health professionals across the country to access key medical information at the touch of a button, amid concerns over security.
But the Government insists less than one per cent of people - 3,425 - eligible to be entered into the scheme, being piloted in Bolton, Bury, Birmingham, Dorset and Bradford, had refused to have their details uploaded.
Officials also insisted the IT programme to introduce the mass database had the "highest standards of security".
But some family doctors in Bolton have expressed concern about the safety of the new system.
Dr Chris Woods from the Halliwell Surgery said: "Security of this system is a concern for me because all the information will be collated on a large central computer."
The issue has been raised after campaign group, the Big Opt Out, said it estimated 200,000 people have requested or downloaded documents allowing them to demand their medical details are excluded from the database.
Concerns were heightened after it was revealed nine NHS Trusts had lost patient information.
Security procedures at Royal Bolton Hospital are being reviewed
after a laptop computer, containing the medical details of around 350
patients, was stolen last month. (source)
Read about the NHS scheme and if you want to Opt Out you can download the forms from the Big Opt Out here.
For Generations the UK has stood up for freedom, fighting against the evils of the Stazi in East Germany, Communist control in Russia and China and mass surveillance of its peoples.
The NuLab government of Gordon Brown has ensured that we in the UK are now part of that same Authoritarian world.
If you are sick of being spied on by your own government, being told what to do, what to eat and drink, being told what you can and cannot think, having your personal data forcibly collected then databased, lost, corrupted and made worthless by the government, The Libertarian option is open to each and every one of you.
Visit the Libertarian Party website to see how you can help to reverse this immoral trend of mass surveillance and overwhelming Statism.
