Summary care records

[minestrone]

I'm not debating banks, neither do I want to. Whatever they do is done. Please, forget bloody banks and stay on the subject of summary care records.

I agree with you that such a database is desirable but I'm not happy with the potential for reduced security or privacy. Someone hacking or misusing a nationwide database is a lot easier than breaking into doctors' surgeries at night.

Absolute nonsense, I could be in and out of a surgery in 2 minutes, the police will not rush to go to a surgery if the alarm is going off, chemist yes but not a surgery. Really it does not need to be that hard, fairly common for surgeries to hire temp staff to do some file admin tasks, easy to get a job. The easiest way really is to instigate a file transfer but I won't go into the specifics of that online.

Any of these is going to be easier, far far easier than cracking a secure database. If it was that easy the police database would have been done over already and it never has.

Believe me, if I wanted to get to your file I would be able to get to it.

[MarillionFan]

Rightio. I actually worked on a team that was responsible for developing the software to migrate GP records. So if you want to break into a surgery and nick their hardrive, I have the software to decode at least 8 of them including EMIS, Torex, Synergy, Exeter, Seetec.

Cost you though!!!