Dr. Vernon Coleman briefly describes what the new NHS smartphone app is really all about.  He then reminds us of how healthcare used to be and what it should be all about.

The NHS smartphone app provides a way for patients aged 13 and over, registered with an NHS GP surgery in England or the Isle of Man, to access a range of NHS services on their mobile devices.

According to NHS England Digital, the app has been updated with new features and guidance for healthcare providers, including integration guidance and dashboards for tracking usage.

The Times reported that “patients have been promised full access to their medical records via the NHS smartphone app as ministers change the law to require GPs and hospitals to use a single system.”

And Yahoo News said “Every NHS patient will carry their medical records with them in a ‘patient passport’ in the NHS app under new plans unveiled by health secretary Wes Streeting.”

“The app will store medical records digitally in one place, meaning that GPs, hospitals and ambulance services can access information quickly so experts can find the right treatment faster.”

If it is on an app on your phone, it will not only be GPs, hospitals and ambulance services that can access the information.  Privacy groups have warned that the new app puts patients at risk of hacking and that private medical data might be sold to drug companies. 

“NHS organisations are already a frequent target for ransomware attacks, and digitised patient records would be a highly valuable target for cyber attackers,” Yahoo News said.

As The Telegraph noted on Thursday, privacy fears are already being raised over NHS staff using WhatsApp to share patient data.  “Experts have called it a security risk.”

It’s not only smartphone apps that will be collecting our personal data to be used or abused.  Added to the dodgy smartphone app plan, “Smart watches and wearable tech will be handed to millions of people under a 10-year plan to save the NHS,” The Telegraph reported on Saturday.

“Our 10-year health plan will turn the NHS on its head – transforming it into a Neighbourhood Health Service powered by cutting-edge technology,” UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting said.

No thanks.  We don’t believe it’s about our health or “health service”; it’s about having control over us by having access to and control over our data and, as a result, what services we are able to access.  Dr. Coleman agrees.

By Dr. Vernon Coleman

For your safety and security, Britain’s communist government and the National Health Service are introducing a smartphone App which will enable anyone who works for Big Brother (or anyone who knows someone who works for Big Brother) to access all your confidential medical information and share it around.

The conspirators claim that this is wonderful because you’ll be able to access your own records. But you’ve always been able to access your own medical records. Just ask for them and your doctor must supply you with a copy.

The apparatchiks are selling the new app as a way to protect patients in some bizarre way and as a way to “improve” health care. It’s a way to improve health care in the way in which electric cars are a way to improve motoring. Your personal medical history, your fears, your peccadilloes will be broadcast to drug companies, employers, social workers and policemen. This will be a national ID card on steroids. You’ll have as much control over the history of your past as you will over the reality of your future.

Today the Health Care smartphone App and tomorrow a knock on the door at 10.00 pm and a boot through the door at 4.00 am.

Privacy vanished with the arrival of the plastic driving licence, the plastic credit card and the zip or postcode. The healthcare app is a thousand steps too far. It’s too late for us to ask to be left alone. But not too late to hope to retain the ounce of privacy we have left.

I bet you £100 to a used sticking plaster that treatment and health care in the UK will not be available if you don’t have the new NHS app on your smartphone.

On the other hand, if you don’t own a smartphone, don’t worry because you will still be able to access the Government’s proposed euthanasia service without one.

(If you think all this is impossible, please read my book `Social Credit: Nightmare on Your Street’. The NHS App is just another way to destroy our freedom and to make people slaves of the State. The new app will be global. And it’ll help patients in the same way that lockdowns and death jabs help the elderly.)

Oh, how the NHS has fallen.

Let me just tell you something about the NHS I knew when I was a GP.

1. GPs would visit their patients at home if requested to do so. No charge.

2. GPs would visit their patients at night, at weekends or on bank holidays if requested to do so. No charge.

3. Patients could always see the same doctor and usually see him or her within 48 hours at most (even though GPs in the 1970s and 1980s looked after far more patients and had a much greater workload than GPs in 2024).

4. Most GPs were male and happy to work nights and weekends because it was what doctors did. It’s mostly female doctors who won’t work nights or weekends or even do home visits.

5. GPs preserved patient confidentiality.

6. When I started work as a GP, I did not have an appointment system. Patients could walk in off the streets and be seen. (Like other GPs I was forced to introduce an appointment system. I hated it as much as patients did. Appointment systems were part of the plan to destroy general practice.)

7. I took blood samples and syringed ears and stitched up small wounds and removed the stitches later because that was what doctors did.

8. Hospitals employed an almoner who would make sure that patients on a ward didn’t have to worry about someone feeding their cat or stopping the milk.

9. Professional hairdressers did the hair of all female patients at least once a week – so that they looked nice and felt a little brighter. Nurses put flowers in vases without complaining.

10. GPs could send patients directly to the hospital without an appointment with a consultant. And GPs could and did visit their own patients when they were on a hospital ward.

11. In the hospital, doctors would prescribe Guinness or sherry if patients needed a pick-me-up or something to help them sleep. (This was instead of sleeping pills. And a damned sight safer for most patients.)

12. All patients who were admitted to hospital were given a thorough examination by a doctor the minute they arrived.

Which sort of health care would YOU choose if you had the option? Then or Now?

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About the Author

Vernon Coleman MB ChB DSc practised medicine for ten years. He has been a full-time professional author for over 30 years. He is a novelist and campaigning writer and has written many non-fiction books.  He has written over 100 books which have been translated into 22 languages. On his website, HERE, there are hundreds of articles which are free to read.

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