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"PS LPCT has to comply with the law, their letter reflects this, don't shoot the messenger!"

Lewisham PCT was simply asked to provide a digital copy of a document it had already provided a hard copy of , stop making excuses for bureaucrats who have gleefully become a law unto themselves.

As for the wider question, of course Google is much better at managing personal information than Governments are and I would like to see patients have real time access to their own personal data as well because there might be other ways they can use it .

On that score, Government has really resisted using IT to democratise as well 'modernise' public services , politicians are addicted to control and cannot be trusted.

BTW I worked in NHS IT Procurement and witnessed incompetence on a scale that firms like Google simply would not tolerate.