Digital Patient Passports

[TheOstrich]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... al-records

Wes Streeting is to unveil plans for portable medical records giving every NHS patient all their information stored digitally in one place on Monday, despite fears over breaching privacy and creating a target for hackers.

What could possibly go wrong?

And there's me, just successfully managed to delete the NHS app from my iPhone. It never properly worked .....

[saundra]

Well my bt phone went digital never worked right since

I don't do links to anything or answer phone from unknown number when any get through the digital stuff BT

[Workingman]

In about March or April 2022 some of us were invited to take part in a records check for the NHS. The aim was to set up a database of illnesses in all demographics. The information would be digitised and anonymous but shared throughout the NHS and selected pharmaceutical and medical research facilities. I signed up and had a thorough medical.

What has not been said about what Streeting says is that this is a tweaked version of a scheme proposed last year by the Conservatives, and the LibDems also have a version. It seems like politicians of all shades want to get their hands on our medical records somehow and somewhy..

Something else not mentioned is that the NHS has put up a website asking for our views on things. It is here: https://change.nhs.uk/en-GB/ just C&P the address into a browser. Anybody can use it to give their views on all things NHS, maybe we should all use it to express what we feel about this digital database.

And like you, Ossie, I will not have the NHS app on my phone as I simply do not trust it nor all the links it gives out. It is flaky as hell.

[saundra]

Wm we have to down load the nhs application on to our kindle and phones to get out drs appointment and prescription and every thing here all except me because of forgot password for Google sigh to much hassle just looked at that link for the survey and views you have to login password can't be bothered useless

[Workingman]

Saundra, your GP surgery has to have a website and from there you should be able to make appointments, order repeat prescriptions, get test results and quite a bit more. All GPs use online services for electronic prescribing using SystmOnline - it is separate from the useless app and is aimed at tablet, laptop and computer users.

The surgery issues you a username and password (you should save that somewhere safe) and it cuts out Google, Microsoft, that NHS app, etc.

Just open a browser and go to the GP website and you are in.

[cromwell]

Many years ago I went for a job interview when Labour tried to get a single patient single record IT system for the NHS.
It remains the most bizarre interview of my working life.
From memory I think the project cost £12 billion before it was cancelled.
To get where they want to be will be a huge undertaking; I'm not sure that any politician understands quite how huge.

[Workingman]

In about 1997 some of our Technology year group were invited by a company, whose name I forget, to trial their 'one patient one record' system. It was long before the cancelled scheme even began. We had dummy records from GPs, dentists, clinics and hospitals to input but it was a time consuming and clumsy system with lots of duplication.

I think that the cancelled project evolved into SystmOnline which is now part of NHS IT and all GPs use it.

[Suff]

If you move surgeries you have to re-register for sytemonline. First time I registered they just did it for me. Now I have to fill out a form and provide ID. I didn't have my ID with me, so still not registered.

[Workingman]

When I moved surgeries a few years back the new one just did SystmOnline when I asked, no forms to fill in. Yes, there was a form and proof of ID when I first registered, but that's standard practice. Once I was registered I could do everything via an email, phone call or by speaking to the receptionist when I was in seeing a doctor or nurse.

[JoM]

Our surgery uses Patient Access.
I rarely use it but needed to change my flu jab appointment the other week so tried to log into the app. There’s a user number and a password on the first page which then takes you to a second page where you enter three letters from a memorable word. I got that far and on the next page it directed me to install a “third party authenticator app” to add a further layer of security.

Sod that for a game of soldiers.

I phoned instead, the call was miraculously answered straight away and the appointment was changed within one minute according to the call log on my phone. Much less faff.