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

Supermarket GPs

I think (could be wrong on this) the idea was to allocate about £225 million over 5 years to 30 deprived areas (deprived as in crap access to health care). The fact that better, more accessable services could be provided by taking on part time GPs and nurses to work evenings and weekends seems to be getting ignored.

Personaly I think the gov are only doing this to try justify the NHS database. Access to health care at weekends etc in the UK already sucks big time and this is just another example of the gove doing a PR thing (sounds better than it realy is).Do you realy want the likes of Boots and ASDA having your medical records? Do you think it’s a good idea to encourage sick people to go to supermarkets?