Nine out of 10 doctors have no confidence in the security of the proposed centralised NHS database, according to a poll of more than 200 doctors by the BMA News.
Eight out of 10 said they would not want their surgery's data stored on the national NHS 'spine'.
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Andy Cowper ponders on the language used by NHS managers and policy makers and how it can frustrate outsiders and even clinicians and make matters worse
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