Personal Data Insecurity
BBC NEWS | England | Bristol | Fears over NHS patients' records
Patients' confidential medical records are regularly being accessed by people who have no right to them, research by the BBC has revealed.Figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that in the last year there have been several data security breaches in the West.
Confidential medical records should only ever be seen by doctors and nurses who are working with the patient concerned, with the government spending some £13bn to digitise the medical records of every patient in Britain.
By 2010, the NHS Care Records scheme aims to have an electronic NHS Care Record for all patients. The record will detail the key treatments and care given to each of the NHS's 50 million patients.
I'm not that keen on any nosey parker being able to see what I was treated at the clinic for, but I'm told spreading all out personal data as far and wide as possible is all for our own good. It might be easier if they just burnt it to CD and dropped it off in a post box...