Team Bonding Days

Are team bonding days’ worth it or just ‘forced fun’.

At Garden House they are definitely ‘fun’ and absolutely not ‘forced’!

Our motto is ‘work hard/play hard’ as you can see from this picture.

We believe that team building is a positive exercise that fosters trust and kindness.  It creates gelling of the team, pulling together during tough times and sharing the workload which transfers to the workplace.

We certainly intend to have many more and suggestions are very welcomed.

Article by Patricia Ling

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Big Brother is Watching!

The Government is asking your GP to transfer your electronic medical records onto a national database called the NHS Spine without seeking your consent. If you want to keep your medical records secure you have to opt out of the scheme. For information on protecting your privacy follow the link http://www.thebigoptout.com/about-nhs-confidentiality/



Article by Patricia Ling



The problem as I see it is that your entire medical history, including details of any conversations you have with your GP, will not be secure.  This information will be uploaded to a central record system referred to as the NHS Spine which will be run by BT and Oracle and will cost an estimated £20 billion.  Those records will no longer be held at your GP’s surgery and can then be accessed by over a million NHS employees from hospital staff, your local pharmacist to thousands of NHS admin staff.  These records will also be accessed by central Government bureaucrats.  All of these people will have access to your name, address, telephone numbers (even if ex directory) and your NHS number and your GP’s details.  This sensitive information will be stored in hosting centres and will not be anonymised.  Even those who do opt out will have their medical data uploaded to the central system and the promise from the Government is that their names, addresses and dates of birth will be removed but there is no guarantee of that.  At least if you opt out your records will remain with your GP so will be safer as they will only be accessed by your own surgery.  Many GPs have seen the risks of the database failing and their patients’ medical history becoming public knowledge and they are encouraging their patients to opt out.  The General Medical Council conducted a survey and report that 9 out of 10 GPs believe that patients should be asked to give explicit consent before their medical records are uploaded to the NHS Spine and 8 out of 10 GPs polled said they were opting out and opting their own families out as well.