Stop the Database State

Our press release on the NHS Spine was picked up by the Manchester Evening News:

AN information watchdog is calling on health bosses across Greater Manchester to abandon plans to store medical records on a national computer database in the wake of three data scandals.

Manchester NO2ID group says the data blunders, all revealed in the past month, are proof that local health staff cannot be trusted with confidential information.

They fear more personal information will be lost if plans to transfer all medical records to a national database, which is being trialled in Bolton, continue.