'They warned the move would end patient confidentiality and hand personal information to third parties.

What third parties would want to know about our BMI, family health, drinking habits etc?

'Patients will not be able to opt out of the system.'

Why am I not surprised.

Originally posted by Sozen94
What third parties would want to know about our BMI, family health, drinking habits etc?

Insurance companies.

Well we have HIPAA laws to protect us. I really don't worry about what they do over there in Europe. From my observation it appears that many use America as a distraction to their own problems.
I don't think we should do the same. Orwell wrote 1984 about English Socialism

This is a complete outrage!!! Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

So let's see what they say:

Diagnosis of everything from cancer to heart disease to mental illness would be covered. Family doctors will have to pass on dates of birth, postcodes and NHS numbers. Officials insisted the personal information would be made anonymous and deleted after analysis.

In what way does getting your NHS number make this 'anonymous'??? And who is going to trust anyone to 'delete after analysis'? Yeah right, who do they think they are kidding?

This needs to go viral so more people in the UK can make a stand against this.

All this is going to do is make people lie to their doctors or even worse put people off going to their doctors. Is this the plan? To make people not go and then just die off early due to not getting treatment in time? Big pharma won't like missing out on all that drug profit I am quite sure.

I totally HATE this Big Brother snoopy society we are being forced to live in.

It will most assuredly happen here - for a number of reasons that will be floated to the public. First, they will claim it will help "Control costs" and who doesn't want that, right? Second, they will claim that they're doing a study on "trends" to offer better "service" and who wouldn't want that, right?

The reality is that it will be used as a bludgeon against those who do not live the way the collective demands. It will be used to threaten higher rates.

Of course this is just another step in the incremental creep of the state. Sadly, many of the sheeple will praise this and call it good thing.

We're screwed!

It’s just a new means of gathering epidemiological data and all of the information is going to be anonymous. Such information is needed and it makes sense for example if we know exactly how many smokers there are in the UK we can better direct services.