The Government have performed a dramatic U-turn on IT services for the National Health Service. The news follows an anticipated enormous financial shortfall for the NHS in years to come, driving even more consumers to private medical insurance .
The health minister, Lord Warner, told the Times Newspaper that patients will now be able to stop their details being uploaded to NHS systems. Previously, the standpoint was that all patients’ details would be uploaded to NHS computers, to make the system national and more powerful. Failure to claim that an e-record will cause significant ‘mental stress’ will mean that patient’s data will automatically be uploaded and shared.
The news has caused controversy amongst consumer groups who think medical records should be private. Helen Wilkinson, from a campaign to protect medical details called TheBigOptOut, said: "So long as ministers continue to demand that all GP records will be kept at hosting centres under government control, the opt-out is a joke. But the Department of Health will already have a copy of the summary record, containing medical details that may by then have been transferred elsewhere or archived for later use."
The news may well goad more people to look into health insurance .
Government U-turn on health service IT
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