I can’t be the only one who saw this and thought, “do we really want to know how bad it is?”
This seems like a good thing and I’ll definitely consider signing up when it becomes open to me.
I’m fit and healthy but getting older now and I’m a bit concerned that our healthcare is too reactive and we only really use it when symptoms get bad which may then be too late, instead of having preventative healthcare that provides us with the tools to maintain our health better ourselves. Although there’s still a big battle there to get people motivated and disciplined enough to use those tools.
If the outcome of this study is just that people should have regular blood tests it will be a win.
>Let’s hope the GDPR on this watertight could be some much room for misuse.
GDPR? We’re not in the EU anymore and in any case it wouldn’t protect if you agree to the terms.
Yes it’s a big worry that they’ll use it for estimating the insurance fees for the future private health service:
“..commercial researchers – from [..] companies and the NHS for example – will apply to use it..”
Getting all the data ready for big US pharma / health insurance companies to move in when they’ve finished off the NHS
This study is funded by some of our biggest national research funders. I don’t think we have any reason to think that the data would not be held in anything but the most secure way. Just as with all other medical research.
This could be game changing yet you are potentially putting people off with baseless concerns.
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I can’t be the only one who saw this and thought, “do we really want to know how bad it is?”
This seems like a good thing and I’ll definitely consider signing up when it becomes open to me.
I’m fit and healthy but getting older now and I’m a bit concerned that our healthcare is too reactive and we only really use it when symptoms get bad which may then be too late, instead of having preventative healthcare that provides us with the tools to maintain our health better ourselves. Although there’s still a big battle there to get people motivated and disciplined enough to use those tools.
If the outcome of this study is just that people should have regular blood tests it will be a win.
>Let’s hope the GDPR on this watertight could be some much room for misuse.
GDPR? We’re not in the EU anymore and in any case it wouldn’t protect if you agree to the terms.
Yes it’s a big worry that they’ll use it for estimating the insurance fees for the future private health service:
“..commercial researchers – from [..] companies and the NHS for example – will apply to use it..”
Getting all the data ready for big US pharma / health insurance companies to move in when they’ve finished off the NHS
This study is funded by some of our biggest national research funders. I don’t think we have any reason to think that the data would not be held in anything but the most secure way. Just as with all other medical research.
This could be game changing yet you are potentially putting people off with baseless concerns.