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LETTER: What a waste of NHS cash.(Letter to the editor)

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Campaign: Common sense on IT

From Dr Tehmton Sepai, Markyate, Hertfordshire

The Spine and Choose and Book are huge and pointless exercises, a drain on precious resources which is distracting us from a job we already do under great pressure.

There is no guarantee of security with patient information sent via Choose and Book or via the Spine.

No matter how secure an IT system supposedly is, it is always open to abuse, and to unnecessarily exposing sensitive information to the outside world.

I urge the Government to take a vote on this issue before more taxpayers' money ...

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