How to refuse consent for your GP to pass your fit note records to DWP | Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker
If you have a sick note/fit note from your GP, or are going to ask for one, come February 2016 you will need to explicitly tell your GP you refuse consent for them to pass your ‘fit note’ records onto the Department of Works & Pensions (DWP).
In a measure that a doctor has described as ‘state snooping’ – as reported in Pulse magazine – the government has told GPs that they must pass on their patients’ fit note records to the DWP, and that although GPs must inform patients this is happening, the only way they – and you – can stop it happening is for patients to explicitly refuse their consent.
To do this, request a secondary uses opt-out from your surgery i.e. 9Nu0 (care.data).
The Pulse article says
“GPs, as data controllers, will be required to tell patients in person, via notices in the practice and on the practice website of the impending extraction.”
So please check that your GP has notices in their practice and on their website.
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See also: Update on GP’s providing sick note data to DWP | The lovely wibbly wobbly old lady https://glynismillward189.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/update-on-gps-providing-sick-note-data-to-dwp/
Is this a good thing to do? won’t the DWP use it as an excuse to say…in the absence off……… ?
What an utter disgrace, next they will be rooting through your bins to see if you smoke or drink and to ensure the tins and wrappings of your food content is the cheapest you can buy.
No wonder they need armed guards.
this is another orwellian prediction for big brother.
what are the implications for all patients opting to oppose the DWP having access to patient records????
Does this apply to the whole of the UK?