The Daily Mail comment upon the Government database Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust report.
In 2002, Tony Blair launched a database of medical records for everyone in the UK
In this mad world of warped priorities, data collection takes precedence over patient care. Since 2002, the costs of Connecting for Health have doubled to an astonishing £12.7 billion, sucking even more cash from real medical services.
Two of the four contractors working on the system have pulled out and its implementation has been put back four years to 2015. But even when it is operational, some GPs have said they will refuse to put patients' data onto it for security reasons.
It won't, of course. Victoria Climbie and Baby P died not through lack of a computer system but because doctors and social workers who came across them failed to spot obvious signs of harm.
Today's database-builders don't seem to understand that the more the authorities watch us, count us and photograph us, the less they actually see.
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clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk
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