> However, I think that patients who want to receive medical services without
> doing whatever the NHS insists on to track payment have defined themselves
> as private patients for that service
This is of course where it's leading to - if you want privacy then go private.
Of course the government would rather that doctors, rather than MPs, should
bear any political fallout from this. What practical political steps might be
taken to frustrate them?
At the June meeting, a representative from one of the patients' organisations
suggested sending every MP and noble lord a letter saying that, if you wish to
protect yourself and your family against the improper disclosure of personal
health information via NHS computer systems, then you should fill out the
following form letter and give it to your GP, your dentist and everyone else
involved in your family's care. The form letter would quote the GMC and forbid
the retransmission of personal health information to any non-clinicians.
If honourable members' physicians all took Adrian's line and told them to go
private, then perhaps this would be the shock that the system needs.
Ross
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