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Following the loss of the confidential records of 25 million Britons by H.M. Revenue & Customs, personal data of 3 million learner drivers and several other data protection incidents, we urge the Government to abandon the planned NHS database.

This national NHS database, which is part of the NHS Programme for IT/NHS Care Records Service/NHS Spine will store large amounts of personal data, much of which will be more sensitive than that lost by HMRC.

Even without malicious or accidental data loss, sensitive medical recordds will be accessible to many more people (NHS staff) than is currently the case for locally-held data. This fundamental attribute of the NHS Spine is also a fundamental & inescapable data protection risk.

The British people would be forgiven for lacking faith in the Government's ability to protect the security and integrity of personal information held on large databases, given recent events.

Therefore, we urge the Government to learn from the recent data protection incidents and abandon its drive to create ever larger & more complex databases about its citizens, such as the national NHS database.

Current signatories

Dr G Y Shin, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Tracey
• christine Knight
• Philip Glover
• Ian Senior
• Dick King
• S King
• Dr Stephen Doyle
• Dr C Wasson
• terry sullivan
• Mike Ebdy
• Eleanor James
• Dr Vicky Henstridge
• David Watmough
• Dr E Freshwater
• Malcolm Timperley
• Andrew O'Brien
• Daniel Campion
• Christopher Kee
• Caroline Evans
• shabab javed
• Dr Michael Loudon
• Nat Queen
• Frank
• Stephen Raftery
• dr D Paul
• James
• Anke Lehmkuhl
• Dr Richard Van Mellaerts
• Ian Street
• Alison Gill
• Dani Cass
• dustyn saint
• dp
• Hannah Godfrey
• helen wilkinson
• Dr Tim Watson
• mary saunders. retired nurse
• sanjay grover
• Dr Zoe Goodman
• Nicola Chaston
• N King
• john webb
• sharon
• connie fallon
• Cecilia M. Hunter
• ian alexander
• C.Juniper
• Dr Naseer Nuaman
• Helen Flight
• Gerald de Lacey
• Rebecca Exton
• David Gough
• Daniel Moore
• Chris North
• Dr P J Burton
• gemma stockford
• Peter Wood
• Hazel Austin
• Haydyn Brown
• D.A.Burridge
• Chris Edmond
• Jacqueline Wright
• Mark McCartney
• christine harvey
• Dr Samantha wood
• Stuart Parr
• S Jones
• Dr Mark Oliver
• annette Oliver
• Mr C G Easton
• Philip Cudmore
• Richard Ian Wallace
• DAVID D GRIFFITHS
• c m coleman
• Ian Chandler
• Dr Peter Gooderham
• Ron Mole
• David Nathan Davies
• ant
• mary
• mom
• Alan Connor, and I want the promised referendum
• andrew aiken
• Esther Robinson
• AnnieG
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• David Fitzgerald
• M Martin
• James A. Hutchinson
• William Saywell
• Simon Fordham
• Timothy Butler
• J.M.BARKER
• Keith Jones (Taxpaying Pensioner)
• Ben Rattigan
• Nigel Ware
• Kelly Power
• Michael Scott
• Erica Killoh
• Margaret King
• Yvonne Cano-Flatt
• Dr Jennifer Colman
• R Grootendorst LGOWatch
• M Meredith
• Charles Haye
• Su
• Alan Ferguson
• Andrea J Chee
• Lisa Hotham
• John Renju
• jonathan mackay
• Dr Mark Folman
• Dr Tamseel
• Susanna Burdett
• Peter Gooderham
• Dan Beach
• Colin Wilson
• Andew Rowland (petitions.pm.gov.uk/MRI-Refund/)
• v burgess
• Anne Graves
• Marigold Clayton
• James F. Clayton
• Donald A Johnson
• Geoffrey Harris
• S. Hezzlewood
• Owen Williams
• Anita M Short
• Maureen Atkins
• Ken Worthy
• Margaret Mallard
• Stuart Fyfe
• andrew newcombe
• W. R. Saywell
• David O'Neill
• O Fadero
• ciaran mccartan
• Anne Ward
• Ian Bickmore
• Michael Mulqueen
• Stephen Hodge
• Dr C. M. Rayner
• Revd Michael Child
• Holly Hurn
• David Macdonald
• CYNTHIA & BRIAN GODFREY
• Sean Marr
• Josephine Anna Leadbetter
• andrew king_venables
• Ian Shepherd
• Michael Lappin
• sarah kirby
• Penny Bunn
• Dr. Roger Leary
• Dr Peter von Kaehne
• Margaret Fletcher
• Dr David Shoesmith
• Ewen Griffiths
• Caroline Gannon
• Oliver Dearlove
• dr rob morrison
• Neil Brown
• Brian Varney
• Sharon Beckham
• Michelle little
• Ciarán Mapp
• Philip Cronin
• Peter Jackson
• Dr Daryl P Goodwin
• Nick Hirst
• Clare Kupfer
• Graham Platt
• Simon Shearer
• N Bhatia
• Dr Brendan O'Reilly
• Dr Peter Davies
• Dr Monica Stevens