...though its main partners at this point appear to be @Pharmacy2U - of which more later - and "exciting new service" #Charac, an app & #SaaS platform which advertises on @facebook, @instagram and @LinkedIn but again doesn't (yet) have a @Twitter handle:
I dunno about you, but "Creating new ways to make more money that isn’t dependent on NHS finance" sounds a lot like #marketing to patients...
Now let me be clear: #pharmacies are businesses, they've always sold other stuff, and helping patients get their #prescriptions more easily is a good thing.
BUT there are ways to do this, and ways NOT to do this - which brings me back to "the nation's largest online pharmacy"...
The history of @Pharmacy2U is long and checkered. By its founder's own admission, when he first set it up in 1999 it was #illegal to send medicines through the post:
Our first direct run-in with @Pharmacy2U was in 2015 when, after years of receiving complaints from patients about being #marketed about their specific conditions and diagnoses, we complained to @ICOnews and @TheGPhC.
The subsequent investigations uncovered that #Pharmacy2U...
...had sold NHS patients' information to some real unsavourables 👇
@Pharmacy2U, at that point part-owned by @EMISHealth, was fined £130,000 by @ICOnews; its commercial director was suspended for 3 months by @TheGPhC & its founder was given a warning...
It remains to be seen what'll happen now @RoyalMail has lent its muscle. For patients' sake, one must hope the activities of its partners will be much better #regulated.
And we still believe only a #criminal ban on #marketing to patients will prevent crooks #preying on patients.
Nah. This is another puff piece on the #WaitingList pilot, details of which @NHSEngland published - without daring to mention @PalantirTech - over ten months ago...
To be clear, 30 individual NHS Trusts* are using #Palantir#Foundry to manage elective care waiting lists, not patients' entire medical histories - largely by what Ministers have called "cleansing" the data:
Why is this so important? Because #SharedCareRecords - which every new #ICS* is supposed to have - include your #GPdata, which @NHSEngland has been trying to get hold of for years (most recently last summer)...
So let’s talk about where things got up to with your #HealthData, before Rishi Sunak started talking about the need to generate trust in Government with “#integrity” and “#accountability”…
N.B. The chair of NHS Digital announced today’s meeting would be the last public meeting of the Board...
With the news that the Government is rushing through @NHSEngland’s takeover of the statutory safe haven (@NHSDigital) with about the level of planning that went into the 'fiscal event', where exactly *are* things as the former/new Sec State starts work?
First, beginning on page 158, are some Directions that @NHSEngland must know will be HIGHLY controversial - given they are telling @NHSDigital to use @PalantirTech's #Foundry to collect *patient level identifiable data* from hospitals...
I'll tweet as I do a read-through, but even these first two paragraphs are incoherent, e.g. "...in a way that will enable." Enable what?
And if @NHSEngland Directs NHSD to use #Palantir, NHSE is *determining the purposes and means of processing* - i.e. it is a #DataController...