Forced consent?

I meant to put this up ages ago, sorry for the delay.

 

It would seem that in order to get patients to ‘consent’ to having an electronic record that will in the future be linked up to a national system, some a mental health trust in London has decided to withhold medical treatment from patients. The trust claims that providing care without it going on such a system is not safe. Why they think it is safer to withhold treatment is any ones guess.

 To me, this seems yet another example of how the public are being forced, and even having their life’s put at risk, if they refuse to roll over and give ‘consent’ to this sort of data sharing.

 As always, some links below

E-Health Insider

ComputerworldUK