[Gllug] NHS opt out

[- Tethys]

On 1/22/07, Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Even if they put you down on the database as an alcoholic, and then tell
> lots of people about it without notifying you, including distributing it
> to private companies. Oh, and you can't get the entry corrected without
> withdrawing entirely from the NHS. Good that...
>
> http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,1937302,00.html

The most worrying bit about that is where the article states:

"An unknown official at a hospital was updating her medical records
and inputted a wrong code."

Unknown? WTF? How many millions of taxpayers money have we given to
EDS / Accenture / whoever, and yet they've been unable to implement a
simple audit trail of who added a given note to a patient's record?
Why was such an audit trail not a mandatory part of the spec, and why
was the system ever signed off to go live without it?

It seems governmental incompetence really does know no bounds.

Tet
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