She chose to interview Alexander Nix, Facebook & Telegraph to talk about data analytics and ethics, consent and Fake News all in Feb/ March 2018 when she was (& is) Head of NHS Improvement & when the Cambridge Analytica/ Facebook débacle headlined
The Government Wants to Sell Your GP Medical Records – Here’s How to Opt-Out – Byline Times
1st July. Whoosh! “Data about diagnoses, symptoms, observations, test results, medications, allergies, immunisations, referrals, recalls and appointments.. bylinetimes.com/2021/05/19/the…
“ including information about physical, mental and sexual health.” This will also include data about “staff who have treated patients”, and data “on sex, ethnicity and sexual orientation”, as well as other sensitive data.”
And they won’t “sell” it. They will “charge for access”
“Having collected millions of patients’ GP histories, their data will be “disseminated” – including into the secret ‘VIP lanes’ for GP data.
It is likely that the majority of the population will not be aware of any of this.”
🇮🇳 COVISHIELD (AZ) & COVAXIN
515 HCW median age 45 in AZ arm, 43 yo in COVAXIN arm
Few over 60 yo.
Both vaccines elicited good immune response after 2 doses. Seropositivity rates & median anti-spike antibody titre was significantly higher in Covishield compared to Covaxin arm.
📌 Among the 515 HCW (305 Male, 210 Female), 95.0% showed seropositivity after two doses of both vaccines.
📌Of the 425 Covishield and 90 Covaxin recipients, 98.1% and 80.0% respectively, showed seropositivity.
📌However, both seropositivity rate and median (IQR) rise in anti-spike antibody was significantly higher in Covishield (AZ) vs. Covaxin recipient (98.1 vs. 80.0%; 127.0 vs. 53 AU/mL; both p<0.001).
Tell me how you’ll use my medical data. Only then might I sign up | Kenan Malik |
“Would you allow your medical data to be anonymised and used for research into cancer or to aid future pandemic planning? Most people would probably say yes.”
“I certainly would. But what if that data could be accessed by tech giants such as Google, medical corporations such as Babylon Health, security firms such as Palantir, or coercive state institutions like the police or immigration service? That raises a few red flags.
And
“What if that anonymised data could in fact help pinpoint who you are? Now you’re getting me worried.”
That is the dilemma most of face. We want to do good and also help one another.
Patients have until June 23 to opt out by filling in a form & TAKING IT TO THEIR GP for themselves, & their children, before their historical records become a permanent and irreversible part of the new data set. ft.com/content/a13225…
It looks to me, from the form itself, that this CANNOT BE FILED ON LINE OR THROUGH THE NHS app. @EinsteinsAttic or @PrivacyMatters can correct me if I am wrong
It has to be completed & handed in to your GP
What about email?
I don’t know how they can verify signatures re email.
If you’ve done it online or through the NHS App I think you’ve gone for the wrong opt out.
A great example of how appallingly badly this is being handled
Too many do not even know the right form to use
GP surgeries are sending out the wrong form when someone sends the right one