The English Spine
Patients have been told they must be quizzed by Health Service officials if they want to keep their name off a national medical database.
Everyone who wants to be omitted from the 'Big Brother' scheme will have to visit their GP and make their case in person.
Nice try Daily Mail, but not 'everyone' will have to visit their GP to be omitted from the National Health Service database, nicknamed "The Spine". Take, for example, the Scots - they won't have to visit their GP. Neither will the Welsh. Nor the Northern Irish.
Only the English are on here.
And it's costing us upwards of £12 billion; possibly £20bn if Lord Warner is to be believed:
Plans to give all 50m NHS patients in England a full electronic medical record are running at least two to two-and-a-half years late, Lord Warner, the health minister who oversees the project, has confirmed.
He also admitted that the full cost of the programme was likely to be nearer £20bn than the widely quoted figure of £6.2bn. The latter figure covered only the national contracts for the systems' basic infrastructure and software applications, he said.
It makes the London Olympics look like damn good value for money. Little wonder that in Britain it's only England that can't afford free prescriptions.
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If the Westminster Raj are
If the Westminster Raj are spending £12 to possibly £20 million on the English NHS data base, will this figure be assessed as money that qualifies for the Barnett Formula carve up ?, if so it means more freebies for the devolution scam.
When is England going to say enough is enough.
If it costs £12bn then
If it costs £12bn then Scotland will receive £1.2bn in Barnett consequentials to spend on more useful things, including cheaper and less intrusive databases (see DK).