Female GP complains about Labour "petition"

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... going to a not-for-public use e-mail address (on this link).

Reflects badly on Labour when "private" NHS e-mail addresses are (ab)used for political campaigns.

Laughed when I saw a comment about how the Government protects personal data {or doesn't, as past examples have shown!}

"Laughed when I saw a comment about how the Government protects personal data "

Agreed. The one thing this government are good at is handing over peoples personal data to every tom, dick and fee paying person.

When a G.P is scared to be identified for fear of reprisals by the government you know you have to worry.

Any nhs petition that comes out now in support of labour really isn't worth the paper it's printed on is it.

Deceitful. Underhand. Slimey. And this on top of e-mailing cancer sufferers whose details were supposed to be confidential.

It's unclear (at present) how the 250,000 women were chosen regarding the posted cards (don't think it was e-mail) sent out about cancer treatment.

In some other thread Experian was mentioned (helps for searching) perhaps in Politics forum, and someone explained one way that the 250,000 could be chosen...

1. ignore safe Labour and safe Conservative constituencies
2. consider age range that might be most susceptible / worried

I think the NHS is accused of releasing data that is not sufficiently anonymous and made public rather than being restricted to medical research bodies.

In the past there have been links back from databases to GPs (where medical trials are concerned) so total anonymity is never completely guaranteed, however (from having worked for some GPs 20-odd years ago) I think they prefer to have the possibility of that linkage, since a drug company needs some way to alert GPs and thence patients if some batch of a drug was contaminated and therefore a danger to them... seems not unreasonable to trade off some portion of anonymity if it keeps you alive.