The Care Data Scheme affecting all of us. We CAN OPT OUT.

[PeckhamRose]

The Care Data Scheme

http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/records/healthrecords/Pages/care-data.aspx

Guardian item http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/18/nhs-delays-sharing-medical-records-care-data

It says that there will not be any information to identify you but if you give your NHS number and Post Code and gender, really, there is every chance you could be identified.

Read the information, and inform yourselves. My surgery's secretary said that we have all received forms and information about this, but I certainly haven't, and other said the sheets of paper they got through their doors were enclosed with pizza leaflets, so were automatically chucked out by a lot of people probably.

But you can opt out.

Information here.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2014/02/515469.html?c=on

and you can get opt out forms from your surgery or any other surgery probably to sign and hand in to your own.