Monday, November 19, 2007

UK: Family Doctors to Shun National Database of Patient Records

John Carvel writes on The Guardian Unlimited:

Nearly two-thirds of family doctors are poised to boycott the government's scheme to put the medical records of 50 million NHS patients on a national electronic database, a Guardian poll reveals today.

With suspicion rife across the profession that sensitive personal data could be stolen by hackers and blackmailers, the poll found 59% of GPs in England are unwilling to upload any record without the patient's specific consent.

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