While @NHSDigital’s #OptingOut page* says a #Type1 “can only be recorded by your GPpractice” & doesn’t even link to the form, it’s worth noting #GeneralPractice is currently the busiest it’s ever been. Why is @DHSCgovuk putting even more work onto GPs?
Decisions aren’t only made by @NHSDigital, of course -but it WILL give your data to others.
Like #CPRD, which gives it to companies to #identify specific patients’ #records; and #PHE, which gave #cancer patients’ data to a “causes of cancer” study run by a #tobacco company...
You can write to your MP if you wish but #GPDPR's being steamrollered through. Do you think this Government really cares?
Their only comms effort is some social media, so the most effective things you can do are:
(1) Opt out & tell others (2) Tweet about why this matters to you
...(3) Link to the first tweet in this [Thread] 🙏
If you’d like to do more, you could spend a few quid getting Twitter to promote *your own tweet* about this #GPdatagrab, to people interested in the same things that you mention in *your own Twitter bio*
I'm afraid not. For the 2021 #GPdata grab, to prevent your entire GP history being copied by @NHSDigital you must ask your GP to add a 'Type 1' opt-out to your GP record.
The GP Privacy Notice* issued by @NHSDigital is on first glance a bit confusing, suggesting you can do a #Type1 "or" a #NationalDataOptOut - but (as the Notice goes on to explain) the latter WILL NOT STOP your #GPdata from being taken...
...and if you do not opt out using a #Type1 to your GP before data is first extracted (from 1 July 2021*) then your entire GP history will be taken on first upload - and will NEVER be deleted!
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*Hence the 23 June 2021 deadline, so your opt-out form(s) can be processed in time.
While I appreciate it won't have been everywhere, in my town GP practices have been doing flu jabs then COVID jabs round the clock *for months* while offering phone and F2F appointments, safely, when needed.
Too many forget that @NHSEngland is NOT 'the NHS in England' but rather the #NHS#CommissioningBoard - as the letter about its renaming in 2013 made crystal clear:
Predictably, @Facebook is acting as if its liability ended when it "patched the vulnerability" in its systems which allowed the exfiltration of *half a billion* people's personal details 🤦🏻♂️🤬
If @ICOnews & @DPCIreland fail to act, then what is the literal bloody point of them?
If 'data is the new oil' - it isn't, but bear with me - then this ONGOING #privacy disaster is the #DeepwaterHorizon of data breaches.
@bp_plc had to set up a $20 billion #compensation fund to pay for damage for which it was responsible; why should @Facebook get away with this?
RIGHT NOW @Facebook should be sending messages to all its affected users, (a) apologising for its negligence/incompetence, (b) telling them what they can do to keep themselves safe, and (c) offering to compensate people for the difficulties it's causing them.
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry (with laughter).
By the time #VaccinePassports are ready, they will be absolutely pointless! Because, as we've said all along, once enough folks have been #vaccinated there'll be no need for them...
...'cos that's the whole *point* of #HerdImmunity (done the right way), unless the Government's going to start demanding we have #MMRpassports, #FluPassports and the like?
This latest bit of #COVIDtheatre just turned into #farce - unless, of course, there's an ulterior motive...