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28 Mar 2008

No sign of NHS-ID System linkage discussions

I’m very surprised. DoH! tells me there is no correspondence between themselves and the Home Office about linkage between the Benighted ID System and probematic Connecting for Health. But it’s quite clear that Home Office made a major bid to forge such linkage, which was robustly rejected by the D’oH! Stuart Craig sens me a polite FoI reply:

Our ref: DE00000284182

28 March 2008
Dear Mr Heath,

Thank you for your email requesting, under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, copies of communications between the Department of
Health and the Home Office about the relationship between the National
Programme for Information Technology and the National Identity Register.
Your request was received on 27 February and it has been passed to me for
reply.

I can confirm that the Department does not hold any information of the
nature you have requested. It may help if I explain that there are no
plans to disclose NHS patient information to the National Identity
Register, and no plans for physical or electronic linkage between what
would be two completely separate systems.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Can such a significant and robust exchange have left no audit trail at all? 

• Posted by William Heath on 28/03/08 at 5:04pm
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