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Staff On UK Socialized National Health Service To Receive *Private* Health Insurance
by Shifra on January 17, 2016Hypocrisy, anyone? Via Breitbart: A group of staff on Britain’s socialized National Health Service (NHS), originally hired by an agency set up to help “reduce health inequalities”, are having private health insurance given to them courtesy of the taxpayer…. The Health Development Agency was set up in 2000 to “develop the evidence base to improve health and reduce health inequalities”. NICE, an agency that frequently rejects potentially life-changing drugs for use by the general public because they would cost too much, paid out £3,091.49 last year for insurance for 19 members of staff, according to a Freedom of Information (FoI) requestobtained by the Times. Roger Goss, the co-director of Patient Concern…: “Why should we take any notice of Nice’s vast...
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Brits Getting Pseudonymized
by Pat_S on January 19, 2014Soon drug companies, insurance companies, researchers and others will be able to pay to access NHS records from a national database called care.data. An application to obtain information will have to be approved. There are five reasons why data can be accessed: health intelligence, health improvement, audit, health service research and service planning. That narrows it down, doesn’t it? Data identifying the patients will be scrubbed, but not enough to assure complete anonymity. The scrubbing process is referred to as “pseudonymisation”. NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms Harvested from GP and hospital records, medical data covering the entire population will be uploaded to the repository controlled by a new arms-length NHS information...
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David Cameron: Everyone To Be A Research Patient
by Pat_S on December 6, 2011The health care records of British citizens will be turned over to anyone who has an interest in the data. PM David Cameron thinks it would be a waste not to. Everyone ‘to be research patient’, says David Cameron Every NHS patient should be a “research patient” with their medical details “opened up” to private healthcare firms, says David Cameron. In a speech in London Mr Cameron said he would consult on changing the NHS constitution, which governs how the the health service is run, so that all patients’ data is used for medical research unless they want to opt out. The Prime Minister said it was “simply a waste” to have a health service like the NHS and not...
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That’s No Panacea, That’s My Pancreas
by Pat_S on April 11, 2010A post by Pat Another oopsie for the NHS. Their organ donation database had a glitch resulting in removal of organs from patients who hadn’t bequeathed them. Don’t worry, they were dead. Things haven’t gotten that bad over there…yet. Organs removed from dead patients without family consent after NHS blunder Around 800,000 people have had their wishes over donating organs wrongly recorded due to an IT error affecting the UK donor register. An investigation found that 45 individuals with false donor information have since died. The NHS is to contact around 20 families who allowed organs to be taken after being misinformed about what consent had been given. NHS ‘organ donor error’ review to take place Huddersfield University student Stephen...
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The NHS Files – ‘Disinvestment’
by Pat_S on March 27, 2010A post by Pat The day after the Democrats muscled the health care abomination into law, the President was out in the hinterland joking that the sky had not fallen. He really thinks we’re that stupid. (Besides, global warming is going to make the sky fall.) In fact, it is a lovely day, he said. For him maybe. For health insurers, it was just a day like any other over the past year. They continue being lambasted and vilified as much as ever. The Democrats think it is their best card to play to change public opinion. For those who are taken in by this tactic, they should be informed about the NHS disinvestment planning. What would the President say...