Wrote to Chris Hopkins at the BMA secretariat today enclosing my resignation
from the BMA over two issues on which I believe they are being fatally
ineffective.
1. Maintaining pay and protecting TOS in the face of a monopoly employer
with a penchant for unilateral contract changing.
2. A completely limp attitude to patient identifiable data on the wide area
network that is the NHSnet.
And sorry Midge, I know I should have the energy to lobby my local branch
and get involved in politics but I don't.
I would be delighted to join a trade union, rather than an org devoted to
"products and services". Is there an alternative?
Paul Galloway
-----Original Message-----
From: Ahmad Risk <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 25 September 1998 21:48
Subject: re: GP nets
>On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:22:52 +0100, Martin & Rosemary Strange wrote:
>
>Thank you, Martin, for the very clear description of PharMed and the
>issues around it.
>
>>Where I worry is that these security issues are complex and some would say
>>esoteric. The same issues must be addressed to enable the plan in the
>>Strategy to allow 24 hour access to a patients clinical record to support
>>the delivery of care - on a need to know basis. Gulp..........
>
>I gulp too. As matters stand in the New Testament Strategy, the
>integrity of personal health information is wide open like a beaver.
>
>I worry and fear that the issues you argue will not be repsected.
>There are not enough people who either, a) know, or b) care, to counter
>attack this real threat to personal health information that looks like
>it's going to be traded wholesale without the necessary safeguards.
>
>Ahmad
>
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