But, I was soooo happy that my brother’s liberty wasn’t invaded, by the people paid to look after him not having the ability to snoop into his private record. No. That’s the price of freedom. No. He’s got a mental age of 8 and was about to be dumped into the middle of a council estate. But he was FREE to do that. Rule Brittania.

Oh, and I bet those people who found Victoria Climbie’s tortured and emaciated body were soooo happy that her freedom wasn’t violated by having the people treating her having one system that they could all look at and piece together a story of violence and evil to a child, before she was finished off. No. It’s much more free for this little girl to get murdered.

Oh, and we all have fantastic memories and can remember every single little aspect about us that could help our healthcare. We shouldn’t put trust into NHS staff, should we? Tell you what, next time my 3 year-old daughter is pleading in agony, I won’t bother telling a Clinician what the problem is, because there’s a chance that she could use this information to stalk us.

And the Police should stop arresting people for crimes. Next time I get beaten up, robbed or sexually assaulted, I won’t bother giving them the information that could help them do their job better. No, don’t trust coppers me. If I get burgled today, I won’t bother calling them.

Oh, and Shipman wouldn’t have been caught earlier, as was stated in the Shipman Inquiry, if there had been a more robust information system in GP practices, possibly electronic. No. It’s freer to ignore this recommendation. The cost of freedom was only some people’s grandparents.

Next time you see a blind man with a guide dog, tell him that he’s pandering to a nanny state. He doesn’t need a dog to help him. However, make sure you let him know that it’s us normal people that made him understand this.

A national computer system is there to HELP us, you idiots!

Maybe we’re all clairvoyants on this site, and we’ll never ever be unconscious, and important medical information is needed about us to keep us alive.

It’s always an abuse of freedom and we all live in a surveillance society until you get on the other end of it.

You might also want o check out a forum thing on the NO2ID web site at http://forum.no2id.net/viewtopic.php?t=14025 While a lot of doctors/nurses might be understanding (I have a great practice!) if doctors are saying patients can not restict access, then when the info goes on-line they will assume they have the right to access anything on that record.

I would never recomend buying drugs over the internet. A lot may be OK, but there is still a risk.

If you normally use repeat prescriptions, you could try buying medicines from Canadian pharmacies instead. They advertise on the Internet and don’t only do anti-impotence drugs. I plan to do this.

Finally there are many medical conditions that are difficult to diagnose - for example back pain. The next best thing to no record is a worthless record, so you could try reporting imaginary ailments to NHS Direct.

“(5) However the initial SCR remains on the national audit trail and is thus available to administrators”

Is truly scary.

There are some medications that you would not want on your medical records if read by somebody without medical knowledge.

For instance say you have shingles (result of a viral infection in child hood) it’s painfull can flare up at any time and is embarising for most people who have it. It’s only real effect on your mental health is due to worry and lack of sleep.

However one of the most likely medications to treat the burning nerve pain is a tricyclic antidepressant. If however you look the medicine up almost the first word that pops up about it’s treatment uses is “psychosis”.

Which a lot of people without further knowledge would take to mean that you are psychotic in some fashion…

Which again would probably make them think you are a danger to the public etc. etc..

(1) The GP’s records are uploaded in their entirety to a hosting centre run by the LSP

(2) Software will then trawl the records for current prescriptions, allergies and adverse reactions

(3) These get uploaded to a national system

(4) GPs then upload a blank record in respect of everyone who has opted out. This ‘overwrites’ the initial summary record, so it’s no longer visible to clinical staff, e.g. at A&E

(5) However the initial SCR remains on the national audit trail and is thus available to administrators.

Ministers have praised the system already operating in Scotland. Indeed. There, if you opt in, your GP data are available to A&E and to the Department of Health in Edinburgh. If you opt out they are not available to A&E but are still available to Edinburgh. Clearly what’s needed is an option to have them in A&E but not in Edinburgh - but Edinburgh paid for the software and so didn’t allow that.

That’s why it’s importanat to tell your GP not to upload your data to the LSP in the first place.

BTW, nice article in the Times, a great comment piece in the Guardian - and see also my comments on the article in the Standard