Well, it is free.

Hax

Dental Records?

And to think, the highly efficient and effective Ministry of Silly Walks had its budget slashed by 40% over the last decade while the DOH actually doubled its funding.

How often is this going to happen over there? Come on, UK, stop putting important data on media that can be easily stolen, like CDs and laptops. Start bolting that shiat to the floor, and maybe you won't have these problems.

Sitting back, making some popcorn, and waiting for the "socialized medicine" flamewar

Wow. Looks like the UK is losing all records these days.

/sits back with something healthy waiting for the UK to lose something else
//hopefully it's the bad food, crap weather, or horrible teeth

Ninth!

It's all the fault of socialized medicine, because something like this NEVER happens to Large Corporations....yeah....right.... :)

*hands rugmannm more popcorn*

DHS = Department of Homeland Security?

Um, no.

DHS = Department of Homer Simpson.

TheGreatZarquon: How often is this going to happen over there? Come on, UK, stop putting important data on media that can be easily stolen, like CDs and laptops. Start bolting that shiat to the floor, and maybe you won't have these problems.

Amazing, isn't it? As a UK resident, my medical records, employment details and credit history are probably sitting in a discarded briefcase in Sheffield's red-light district as I speak. Right now, I don't think I'll feel secure until my personal information is kept on one place only, tattooed on Alistair Darling's yambag. I'd like to think he'd take a little more care not to let that slip into the wrong hands.

Maybe it's all a cunning ruse to prepare us for ID cards. One of the main objections is that people don't like the idea of all their data being on one easily-stolen card. So when copies of every Briton's last six months' bank statements are accidentally released as a bestselling Christmas hardback, the government will say "Whoops! Well, we appear to have absent-mindedly released every last piece of personal data for every UK resident. So, if we did put it on an ID card, it'd be old news anyway..."

"Department" of Health?

Shouldn't that read "Ministry of Health"?

On the bright side, my ex doesn't start working for that particular bureaucracy for another 2 weeks... so this can't possibly be her fault. :)

Pfft....don't those Brits know that GREED makes everything better? Privatize EVERYTHING!!!! You won't regret it!!!

He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is trying to find out what Harry Potter is allergic to.

You need not fear something like that taking place in the U.S. when we get Hillary or Obama-care because...well...you know......OUR Government is very very efficient...

I can't wait for DMV-style medical care.

DOH strikes again!

/Arkanerd

+1 for the headline, subby
Nicely played.

"Department" of Health?

Shouldn't that read "Ministry of Health"?

No.