As things stand, all 36 GP practices in the London borough of Tower Hamlets have agreed to withhold the data at the start of the survey on July 1, 2021. An email asking colleagues to reflect the protest has now been distributed to around 270 practices in England, The. Wächter has answered.
Doctors believe the automatic suction of NHS medical records, including details of mental and sexual health records, criminal records, and more, will increase trust between patients and their GP, Dr. Ameen Kamlana, who is based in Tower Hamlets and is attending the protest, is being undermined, has claimed.
“The responsible and safe handling of public data and health files can bring an enormous amount of good,” said Dr. Kamlana told The Guardian. “However, our problem here with this particular proposal is that it was rushed. There was no public information campaign to inform the public about the plans and let them decide for themselves whether they are satisfied with them.
“Essentially, it is asking about people’s entire health record, which is everything we have coded on people’s records from birth to the time of their death, including their physical, mental and sexual health, including their health concerns Family and work, including drug and alcohol history. Essentially all of your most intimate private details of your life are being requested, and we were concerned that the public would not know what was being done. “
The upcoming NHS Digital database does not include the full addresses of patients, any pictures or videos taken during private consultations, or any legally restricted data such as IVF treatments or sex reassignments.
NHS Digital says that anything on your records that could directly identify you will be encrypted before being uploaded by your local GP practice. However, the organization admits that this process is completely reversible – NHS Digital will keep the code that will decipher the data to its original state.
She will only reverse the anonymized data used to disclose the patient’s identity “if there is a legitimate reason to do so and this has to be in compliance with data protection law”. However, data protection activists criticized the plans as “legally problematic”.
Records of 55 million patients in England over the next month will then be made available to scientists and commercial third parties, privacy activists claimed. These records are used for research and planning, with NHS Digital claiming that records “decide what new health and care services are needed in a local area, inform clinical guidelines and guidelines, and aid research and development of cures for serious illnesses such as heart disease “. Diseases, diabetes and cancer. “
If you want to be struck off the database, there is still time to remove your NHS records. To be exempt from data collection, you must fill out a form and send it to your GP.
If you don’t do so before the deadline of June 23, 2021, your medical records will become a permanent part of the NHS Digital database. Deregistration after June 23 will still work, but will only apply to future dates – all historical data will still be available to researchers, academic and commercial partners of the NHS. You will find the required form to unsubscribe Here.
Advocacy group MedConfidential, a privacy-driven group that was instrumental in raising the alert, told the Financial Times, “They’re trying to smuggle it out, they’re giving you nominally six weeks and if you don’t act based on webpages on the NHS digital website.” and some YouTube videos and a couple of tweets your entire GP history could have been scraped and never deleted. “
Speaking to Express.co.uk, a spokesman for the NHS Digital spokesperson said, “Patient data is already being used every day to plan and improve health services, research into better treatments, and save lives. During the pandemic, data from general practitioners has helped millions of us: it helps identify and protect the most vulnerable, launch our world’s leading vaccine program, and identify hospital treatments that have prevented people from dying from Covid.
“We worked with doctors, patients, data, privacy and ethics professionals to develop and build a better system for collecting this data. The data will only be used for health and care planning and research purposes by organizations that can demonstrate that they have an adequate legal basis and legitimate need to use them. We take our responsibility for protecting patient data very seriously. “
