( The department of health in England ha...)Survey Reveals Rejection of NHS Database Scheme,Health

The department of health, in England had proposed to set up an elaborate national database to store all medical records from hospitals.They had set aside ￡12 billion pounds for// this computerization project. GPs across Britain, however, are opposed to this project. 52% of GPs opined that they would not like to upload confidential data dealing with patient information, without the prior consent of each patient. A campaign against this move was launched last night in London, to convince people not to allow their medical reports to be uploaded on a national database. The people were informed that this could compromise their privacy severely. No2ID group, is also campaigning against issuing of identity cards.

A charitable Trust, Joseph Rowntree trust, is at the helm of the campaign. They released the ICM poll findings which showed that a substantial number of people are opposed to Whitehall's plans.

The figures exhibit that nearly 53% of the people who were interviewed, expressed strong disapproval or were almost reticent about the Department of Health’s NHS computerisation scheme. Earlier this month a Medix poll, which gathered the opinion of doctors also showed that 52% of GPs showed reluctance to upload their private clinical records to the Database without eliciting their patients consent.

One of the campaigners, Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge, observed that the NHS' plan of a data base is getting flagged of with severe opposition from the public. Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Conservative foreign secretary was present at the anti database campaign yesterday. The Tories are not officially linked up with this campaign protesting against setting up of data base. However, he voiced his support in opposing the government’s decision to set up data bases and to introduce identity cards.

Sir Malcolm opined that it has to be ensured that suitable safeguards are put in place to avoid potentia
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