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	<title>Medicalprivacy's Weblog</title>
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	<description>A blog about medical privacy, ethics and confidentality</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>More reords left lying arround</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/more-reords-left-lying-arround/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 13:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[data security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[confidentality]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dundee]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Tayside NHS Scotland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7414319.stm 
It would seem that the NHS in Scotland are still not caring about looking after records. It is incidents like this that cause me to distrust health workers to look after my records. The hospital was in a 20 year shut down phase and the last thing they seemed to care about was patient [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More abuse of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/more-abuse-of-regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-2000/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/20/more-abuse-of-regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-2000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse of laws]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[intrusion]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/?p=43</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following on from my comments about Poole Council spying on familes (including a 3 year old) it seems that this is not a rare event.
It mow emergies that the abuse of counter terror/serious crime laws are being about 1000 times a month by councils (last year they made 12,494, request for this abuse, almost double of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council uses Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to spy on famil</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/council-uses-regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-to-spy-on-famil/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/council-uses-regulation-of-investigatory-powers-act-to-spy-on-famil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[CCTV]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[children’s act 2004]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intercept communications]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Poole Borough Council]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[School]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[serious crime and terrorism]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[spying]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/?p=42</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
This is an example of how laws passed for one thing can be used for another. It seems that a council (Poole Borough Council) used laws for tracking terrorist to spy on a family to see if they really lived in a catchment area. It involved following the family in the daily business. I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Types of people who &#8216;protect&#8217; data</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/41/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/41/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[access]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[data security]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[distrust]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[hypocrite]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intrusion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[morals]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[patient rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[dishonesty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/?p=41</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to medical privacy there is often a lot of talk from those who want to share/access identifiable data about how data will be protected and they can control access. Unfortunatley these are often grouped into 3 different groups.

There are those who have a low standard of protection. An example of this would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No jail for data theft? Goverment backdown?</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/no-jail-for-data-theft-goverment-backdown/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/no-jail-for-data-theft-goverment-backdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[data theft]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fine]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[goverment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[jail]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[labour]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/?p=40</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that the goverment want to back down on it&#8217;s plans for sending people to jail for breaching our privacy.
Comming at a time when the NHS are planning on sharing records online with even more people, you would think the goverment would want to take action.
The plan was to allow people to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer patient privacy</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/cancer-patient-privacy/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/cancer-patient-privacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Common Services Agency]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[House of Lords]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is not very often I back a goverment/NHS body, but when they do something worth backing, I think it is right to back them.
It has been reported in the news that the Common Services Agency  (CSA) in Scotland are refusing to share patient data with the public. The CSA are going to the House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the standards keep droping</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/and-the-standars-keep-droping/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/and-the-standars-keep-droping/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[A&amp;E]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[admin staff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Connecting for Health]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[data security]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NHS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[police]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that Connecting for Health (people behind Englands NHS database) have decided to yet again lower the already low standards they have about access.
It has been reported that they are now agreed to allow people without qualifications, such as healthcare assistants, to access the patient Summary Care Record in full, not just the basics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police to access national NHS medical records</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/police-to-access-national-nhs-medical-records/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/police-to-access-national-nhs-medical-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[agents of the state.]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[doctors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/?p=37</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that those of us that were worried about the police etc having access to the national NHS database are proven to be right to worry. It seems that the police have been given permission to access the database.
http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/tony_collins/2008/02/police-will-be-allowed-searche.html
How long will it be bfore they and possibly the SS do searches for all possible knife/bullet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medical records dumbed in landfill site</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/medical-records-dumbed-in-landfill-site/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/medical-records-dumbed-in-landfill-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[insecure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[landfill]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[medical records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You would think everyone who handles medical records new the importance of keeping the info confidential. It seems that nobody has told Bolton PCT how to do this.
It has been discovered that they dumbed the medical info of over 3,000 patients in the normal rubish bin and they were found at a landfill site. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChildProtectionLine, good or bad?</title>
		<link>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/childprotectionline-good-or-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://medicalprivacy.wordpress.com/2008/02/04/childprotectionline-good-or-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>medicalprivacy</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Grampian]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[SNP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[child rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[databases]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[distrust]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[drug test]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[exam]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I only heard about this via the media, so I contacted the Scottish goverment about it. To my suppsrise I got a prity full reply (not often that happens!).
From what I could make out from the reply, there are good and bad points about it (some of the questions/issues are still not sorted).
Good. This is [...]]]></description>
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