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.”
“ It will not know that the Government has commanded NHS Digital to instruct their GP to hand over a copy of their lifelong medical history to be sold – because the Government has taken the decision not to tell anyone.”
This is what a Professor of Health Informatics has to say
“NHS Digital does audit some (but not all) of its customers which receive copies of data. Several of these audits have revealed that, not only do organisations break the ‘protections’ in place, but that these do not stop them from getting data once they have been broken.”
“Some of these protections are legal obligations, but audits have shown that one public body did not even conduct a legally-required data protection impact assessment.”
The @GoodLawProject acted responsibly, writing to Hancock making proposals to improve procurement and get better value for money for taxpayers -offering if that invitation was accepted, to drop the further procurement challenges to save public money
He also says there is NO evidence to support the idea that the revoke policy cost the Lib Dem votes. He says that when canvassers met that as an issue on the doorstep that is because people have decided not to vote for Lib Dem for other reasons.
The Lib Dem vote is REMAIN
Lib Dems problem is going to be regaining trust from their disastrous decision to start equivocating on Brexit.
It should aim for socially liberal University educated base. Labour remain voters
He says brexit is not going away. Labour desperately wants it to.
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
🇮🇳 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).