"Does it matter"?
Yes.
If care.data was a Direction from Parliament it would have to be from the
Secretary of State for Health: there is no power that I can see in the Act
for "Parliament" to direct the collection "of any information he considers
necessary or expedient", only The Secretary of State for Health.
So if what is meant is that the Direction came from the Secretary of State
for Health - and not, as I had assumed, from somewhere in NHS England - it
is Jeremy Hunt who needs to be held accountable for care.data.
So far he has not said that it was his idea, nor made a good case for it.
(If I've missed his case, can someone point me to it?)
"Can we stop it"? is a different unrelated topic: please keep it out of this
thread!
Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ And Fred!
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/freds-saying-you-just-dont
-get-it/
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Subject: Re: Did Parliament order care.data?
Does it matter can we stop it?
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Subject: Did Parliament order care.data?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03ttmdy/PM_14_02_2014/
listen between 15.52 and 26.15.
Both Geraint Evans and Stephen Dorrell seem to think that care.data started
with Parliament.
Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, which part of Parliament and on
what legal basis?
Mary Hawking
Retired from NHS on 31.3.13 because of the Health and Social Care Act 2012
"thinking - independent thinking - is to humans as swimming is to cats: we
can do it if we really have to." Mark Earles on Radio 4
blog http://maryhawking.wordpress.com/ And Fred!
http://primaryhealthinfo.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/freds-saying-you-just-dont
-get-it/
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