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 |  Subject: Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size as GPs are forced to hand over confidential records  Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:35 pm | |
| *Data includes weight, cholesterol, BMI, family health history and pulse rate
*Doctors will be forced to reveal alcohol consumption and smoking status
*Privacy campaigners described it as 'biggest data grab in NHS history'
*Part of new Health Service programme called Everyone Counts
*Officials insisted data will be anonymous and deleted after analysis
GPs are to be forced to hand over confidential records on all their patients’ drinking habits, waist sizes and illnesses. The files will be stored in a giant information bank that privacy campaigners say represents the ‘biggest data grab in NHS history’. They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand personal information to third parties. The data includes weight, cholesterol levels, body mass index, pulse rate, family health history, alcohol consumption and smoking status. Diagnosis of everything from cancer to heart disease to mental illness would be covered. Family doctors will have to pass on dates of birth, postcodes and NHS numbers. Officials insisted the personal information would be made anonymous and deleted after analysis. source http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272166/Big-brother-log-drinking-habits-waist-size.html#axzz2JhXYhdJ3 | |
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