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Private medical records for sale: Harley Street clinic patients' files outsourced for computer input - and end up on black market - Daily Mail 18th October 2009
"The confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals have been illegally sold to undercover investigators.
Hundreds of files containing intimate details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth are being offered for as little as £4 each."
Crewe hospital apologises after patient records blunder - Crewe Chronicle 14th October 2009
"LEIGHTON Hospital has launched an investigation and apologised unreservedly after details of medical records of two patients were sent to the wrong person.
The blunder occurred when Trevor Millington requested the medical records of his father after he died in Leighton Hospital last month."
Patients should store their health records with Google or Microsoft, says David Cameron - The Guardian 6th July 2009
Lib Dems complain that plan could give Google undue commercial advantage
Don't ask the public to care for its data - The Guardian 6th July 2009
The Conservatives want us to keep our own NHS records on services such as Google, but there are a few flaws in this idea
Patient records should be given to Microsoft or Google, say Tories - The Telegraph 6th July 2009
NHS patient records would be outsourced to Microsoft or Google under Tory plans, instead of being held on a central government database.
NHS medical records could be stored by Google or Microsoft under Tory plans - Daily Mail 6th July 2009
Health service records may be transferred to internet servers run by Google or Microsoft under plans being drawn up for the Tories.\n\nThe party has commissioned a review of the NHS computer system, which could see patients given the chance to have their medical notes stored by private firms.\n\nOne option is the healthcare provider Bupa. However, in the US, Google Health and Microsoft Healthvault offer popular services giving patients the control to access and move around their own medical records.
Google or Microsoft could hold NHS patient records say Tories - The Times 6th July 2009
Health records could be transferred to Google or Microsoft under a Tory government, The Times has learnt.
Patients will be given the option of moving their medical notes to private companies after the Conservatives said that they would replace Labour’s “centrally determined and unresponsive national IT system”.
Give doctors the basic information so they can save patients’ lives - The Times 6th July 2009
The principle that doctors should have access to anyone’s health records — be that person a regular patient or seen in Accident and Emergency late at night — is an important one.
But current attempts to hold health records on a vast central database, the Connecting for Health project, is a mess and way behind schedule. They should and could have sorted out at least the “summary care record” long ago, and the reason for the delay is very straightforward.
Ethics could sink Tory plan for Google or Microsoft health records - The Times 6th July 2009
The plan to transfer confidential medical records to internet servers run by companies such as Google and Microsoft is anything but straightforward.
The chance for patients to have 24-hour access to their doctor’s notes on password-protected websites will appeal to the middle classes and the “worried well” who already diagnose their ailments with the help of the internet. But there is a welter of ethical and practical difficulties that could yet scupper the idea and must be considered by Francis Maude and his Tory policy implementation unit before the plan can be approved.
Privacy concerns over Tory plans to farm NHS records out to private firms - Daily Mail 6th July 2009
NHS records could be transferred to private companies under plans being drawn up for the Tories.
The party has commissioned a review of the sprawling NHS computer system that may conclude patients should instead be given the option of moving their data to firms such as Bupa, or even Google or Microsoft.
'Positive future' for patient records scheme - The Bolton News 5th March 2009
A controversial medical records scheme, which is being piloted in Bolton and involves putting patient details into a central online system, has a positive future, according to NHS Bolton.
The trust says it is pleased with how the Summary Care Records scheme is developing.
Straw urged to exempt medical records from data sharing -The Guardian 3rd February 2009
The medical professions are to press the justice secretary, Jack Straw, today to exempt personal medical records from the widespread data-sharing powers in his coroners and justice bill.
A letter from eight healthcare organisations states they have "grave concerns" that clause 152 of the bill would grant unprecedented powers to access people's confidential medical records.
Doctors' outcry over plan to sell patient records - The Telegraph 3rd March 2009
Confidential patient records could be passed from the NHS to government departments and private companies, leading to a "disastrous impact" on public health, medical organisations have warned.
Passing medical records to Government and companies will 'damage patient care' - The Telegraph 2nd March 2009
Proposals to allow confidential NHS medical records to be passed to Government departments and private companies will 'corrode trust' in the doctor-patient relationship and have a 'disastrous impact' on public health, doctors warn.
Experts have 'grave concerns' over data sharing: the letter to Jack Straw in full - The Telegraph 2nd March 2009
Doctors leaders urge rethink on law which would allow access to named confidential medical details.
Data plans 'medical records risk' - BBC Health News 3rd February 2009
Doctors have warned that plans to relax data sharing rules could damage patient confidentiality.
A group of eight leading medical groups have urged ministers to re-think the Coroners and Justice Bill, currently working its way through parliament.
Review given for boy's 1990 death - BBC Health News 24th February 2009
A charity has won the legal right to challenge a decision by the General Medical Council (GMC) not to investigate a boy's death 19 years ago.\n\nRobbie Powell, 10, died of Addison's disease, a chronic but treatable condition affecting the adrenal glands.
Court case over boy's 1990 death - BBC Health News 21st February 2009
The General Medical Council (GMC) faces a judicial review over claims it failed to investigate a boy's death nearly 19 years ago.
Robbie Powell, 10, died of Addison's disease, a chronic but treatable condition affecting the adrenal glands.
Alleged forging of GP records may have to be investigated - The Independent on Sunday 22nd February 2009
A judge will be asked this week to overturn a medical watchdog’s refusal to investigate the alleged forging of medical records relating to the death of a 10-year-old boy.
On Tuesday, the charity Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) will seek a judicial review of the General Medical Council’s refusal to look into the actions of several doctors involved in the treatment of Robbie Powell, who died of Addison’s disease in April 1990.
Editorial: It is hard to see what good could come of offering anyone but medics access to patient records - The Guardian 16th February 2009
Confidentiality has come with the territory for medical practitioners since the inception of the trade. "All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession", the original Hippocratic oath decreed, "I will keep secret and will never reveal."\n\nThe continuing importance of privacy rests, however, on more than fusty tradition. Whether it is a long-ago abortion or a past heavy drink problem, medical histories often contain the most intimate of secrets, and there must be an absolute right to know they will be kept firmly under wraps. When that changes, anxious patients will grow reticent in seeking advice, which will be ruinous for public health.
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