Alan Johnson MP, former Home Secretary, writes in the Yorkshire Post: The DNA database has identified 410,589 crimes with a DNA match over the last decade. Last year in 800 of the most serious cases – murder, rape and manslaughter – DNA was central to police inquiries. The Government plans to reduce the DNA matches [...]
This week’s edition of Pulse, the GP’s magazine, is edited by Dr Dr Gillian Braunold, clinical director for the NHS Summary Care Record Programme. The issue includes an Opinion piece by Dr David Lloyd, medical director of out-of-hours IT at NHS Connecting for Health, discussing how an accurate, reliable record of patients’ medication might improve [...]
Denis MacShane writes in The Times: My wonderful national identity card allows free passage without let or hindrance. Nick Clegg, whose mother is Dutch, whose wife is Spanish, and who has lived and worked in Belgium and France, knows all about identity cards. And yet he peddled the pre-election line that they amounted to an [...]
Angela Epstein writes in the Manchester Evening News: They came, they identified, then they bit the dust. So ends the much maligned saga of the ID cards, which have been swiftly junked by the new Con/Lib Government. And as the first member of the public to acquire one of these now collector’s items, I’m deeply [...]
Jill Palmer writes in Tribune about the Summary Care Record roll-out: People will want to be reassured that their confidentiality is preserved, that their data is not at risk from hackers. Many distrust the Government on its ability to safeguard the personal data it retains on computer systems, as its track record on data security [...]
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