Sorry, Dinesh, I don't seem to have made the question clear enough.
The HSCA is the legal basis for care.data: it gives the *power* to the
Secretary of State for Health (not "Parliament"), the NHS Commissioning
Board (now NHS England) and Monitor to *direct* the collection of any
information considered "necessary or expedient".
This is the first time I have heard it suggested that the Direction came
from the SoS for Health - or "Parliament" - rather than NHS England.
Should people who agree/disagree with care.data be talking to Jeremy Hunt
and/or addressing questions to their MPs rather than NHS England, HSCIC or
their GPs?
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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From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dinesh Patel
Sent: 15 February 2014 09:47
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Subject: Re: Did Parliament order care.data?
It was one of the key changes introduced in the HSCA 2012.
On 14 Feb 2014, at 19:54, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
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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