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A campaign has been launched in the UK to get people to opt out of a government scheme to upload medical records from family doctors' surgeries into a central health database. TheBigOptOut.org was launched in London on 29 November 2006 with support from NGOs such as Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) and No2ID. An opinion poll published at the meeting shows that 53% of UK citizens do not approve of a central medical records database with no right to opt out; another poll the previous week had showed that 51% of family doctors do not intend to upload data without patient consent.
The campaign urges people in England to write to their doctors forbidding the upload of their data. The UK government response has included a letter from the Chief Medical Officer which orders doctors to report dissenters to the government; this letter was condemned by the British Medical Association as telling doctors to breach patient confidentiality.
The Big Opt Out
http://www.thebigoptout.org
Media coverage of campaign launch (27.11.2006)
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/11/27/developments-on-health-p...
Row between government and BMA, and latest news (1.12.2006)
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/12/01/health-privacy-breaking-...
(Contribution by EDRI-member Foundation for Information Policy Research - UK)