Jane Ashley writes on the BBC web site:
At least 100,000 non-medical staff in NHS trusts have access to confidential patient records, claim campaigners.
Big Brother Watch, who based the figure on 151 responses from trusts, said it demonstrated “slack security”.
The group says hospital domestics, porters, and IT staff are among those with access to records in [...]
Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, writes in the Guardian’s Comment is Free web site about the DNA database:
My fear is that limiting the retention of DNA unnecessarily now may hobble a technology that could be a very powerful tool for identifying offenders, eliminating innocent suspects and protecting human rights in 30 or 50 years’ [...]
Ian Quinn writes in the medical trade journal Pulse:
GPs are being warned they could be held legally accountable for any errors in Summary Care Records, after a leaked report claimed inaccuracies have been identified that could put patients’ lives at risk.
The GPC [General Practitioners Committee] this week renewed its demand for the rollout of the [...]
In an article about the Home Office’s continuing changes of plan for the ID cards database, John Lettice writes in The Register:
Meanwhile, pre-election ID creep proceeds apace. A Statutory Instrument (which allows ministers to change the law with negligible parliamentary oversight) to the 2003 Licensing Act proposes a “licensee’s policy” which “must require individuals who [...]
Anthony Barnett writes in the New Statesman:
But below the radar, and from early in the New Labour years, [Brown] and Blair initiated an audacious and sustained “transformation of government”. Its ample official documents, never debated by parliament, set out to restructure the relationship between the state, citizens and business. It is a programme for a [...]
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