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Re: [LUG] NHS - Summary Care Records (a bit OT)

 

Eion MacDonald wrote:
On 19/03/2010 14:23, Gordon Henderson wrote:
Also there is the risk of the bored hospital nurse who has access,
sitting down at night and just going through records at random

I consider two points.
- is the data secure now; as it is on your GP's  computer (due to
'change of staff on shifts, some of these are left logged in at all
times for convenience)
- search by 'celebrity name' may be a boredom relief pastime in some UK
Government organisations, where data is accessible.

Your GP only has access to the practices patients and this makes it less of a target. When everyones data is in one db then I'd imagine its worth a few tens of millions in the right pocket to intercept a backup set, or set up some kind of eavesdropping...
or just ask the right gp.

Tom te tom te tom

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