Almost three million people have signed up to the NHS app since the addition of the “NHS Covid Pass” section, showing a user’s vaccine status, as well as recent test results. The Guardian has the story.
The app, separate from the NHS Covid app, began enabling people to show proof that they had received the vaccine from May 17th, in order to travel internationally or attend sporting events, such as Wimbledon and Euro 2020 matches. The app already had other functions in order to access medical services, such as booking GP appointments.
Between May 17th and June 14th, almost five million distinct users logged on to the app, with the Department of Health and Social Care stating that more than six million users had been reached in total.
The Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, said: “Technology undoubtedly plays a huge role in how we deliver healthcare now and in the future and it is great to see so many people downloading, using and benefiting from the NHS app.
“It is vital we embrace the momentum we have built-in using technology and innovation in the health and care sector over the last year as we look beyond the pandemic to improve treatment, care and the experiences of patients.”
While the Gov.uk website mentions only that the app allows users to show their vaccine status “if required for international travel”, the Chief Executive of NHSX (the digital arm of the health service) says: “It has been good to see it used to open up sporting events, facilitate travel, and encourage the use of NHS services online.” Last month, a senior Whitehall figure said it is “almost certain” that vaccine passports will be required in domestic settings, such as for events of more than 1,000 people.
The Guardian report is worth reading in full.
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I have the NHS app as it is the only way I can book a GP appointment online. I have not enabled the vaccine status part of the app, which requires giving permission to access all of my personal data. It does show that I have had two doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with dates and batch numbers, but I have this on a card anyway. I wouldn’t use this to try and access events as I don’t think it’s right. My data for my personal access only.
*My data for my personal access only*
That’s laughable… here’s what B3 and New Normal truly equates to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTpO9y2Dh4
Just watched that, not seen it before – thanks – absolutely chilling.
Google and God both begin with the same two letters!
Owned by the Alphabet (agency) perhaps?
My health data is not for sale, which is why I will be opting out of the NHS data scraping scheme.
Unfortunately according to many direct contacts – it is utterly futile. They will give it away anyway as they have a massive get out and they will use it.
they want All your data
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Are you sure you need the app to book a GP appointment? I regularly book GP appointments using patient access with no need for the app. Maybe your GP is different?
my surgery stopped using patient access a while ago.
Then how do people who don’t have smart phones book appointments?
Exactly. My GP surgery really tries to plug its app service on the laboriously long message when you ring them but at least I can (eventually) get through and speak to someone, but for how long? Same with everything else – you can call but they’d much you use their app! It’s utterly souless. They really are trying to destroy any human contact. I don’t have a smart phone, I don’t need one, and I can’t really afford one, but most of all, I don’t want one! But I’ll be forced into having one eventually just to do the basics in life.
I phone my GP surgery if I need an appointment. I don’t use any online app or site.
Snap.
We live in a small rural town so that might make a difference I suppose.
I’d be very surprised if a surgery stopped using Patient Access. I work in a surgery and we use it plus have it personally with my own GP. I prefer accessing appointments and ordering medication on a lap top than fiddling about on my phone. No apps for me!!
About booking a GP appointment only with the app, I’ve had online GP surgery access without an app for several years for booking appointments or repeat prescriptions, web based using my old windows 7 laptop or an ipad. Though I normally still phone them on their landline number about appointments. .
I do the same. What is wrong with using old fashioned skills such as talking to people? My GP’s surgery always answers the phone and I always get an appointment (I need a 12 weekly injection for cancer treatment, so I suppose that helps).
“…almost five million distinct users logged on to the app” and 2.7 million signed up. Nearly half didn’t want it?
65 million don’t want it.
This shit won’t End on July 19th or on any other date
Massive contracts signed long into the future
I reckon at least until 2023. Meanwhile the scumbags in Westminster will continue to live their lives without any of the restrictions the plebs have to face.
I think it will just go on and on forever now. Voting via an app (easy to fiddle those results to the One Party’s favour!). Doctor’s appointments via video on your phone.
Only a matter of time before you are in a shop, or on-line, and your credit card has stopped working. When you phone to your bank you are 67th in the queue… and must repeatedly listen to messages about how important your call is to them…
Book burning next, and deleting any blogs on-line that don’t support your government who only want to ‘protect you from harm’.
Children have already missed out on over a year’s education – well, let’s face it, you don’t need to educate kids who’ll be sent up the chimneys of the rich to clean them, or down into the re-opened coal mines.
Think China. It’s an appealing model to the political elites. Stay in power forever, don’t have to face awkward questions.
The Progressive Alliance, with encouragement from Tony Blair who in turn has been advising some government ministers, managed to get the Lib Dems to win the latest by-election by getting all their voters to vote Lib Dem. Labour aren’t upset. Lisa Nandy has praised the PA win.
The Tories should be worried.
If we think they’re bad, the other lot (Communists and radical Left) will be worse. Critical Race Theory is their religion, i.e. blatant anti-white racism, segregated society, anti-family, anti-capitalist, because it’s worked so well whenever it’s been tried before.
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2.7 million from 66 million
Another success story from a genius
55 million as nobody in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can use it.
And of those 14 million or so will be kids so call it 40 million.
A large number of those won’t be sick and aren’t going on holiday so also wont use it.
I generally ostentaciously walk out of places that insist on the NHS App (fortunately many don’t now or at least will be satisfied by unconviningly waving a phone over the QR code). The thing that bothers me most is the fact that this App has been granted the legal power to arbitarily impose two week house arrest sentences (‘self isolation’) on people under the pretext that they might have been in close contact with someone who had a positive PCR test result. It looks more like the CCP’s social credit system than a disease control measure to me
We pretend to use the app and the proprietors pretend to believe us
Oh is that how it works, I did wonder.
You won’t be getting away with that for long.
That has usually been my experience, too. Except at my local branch of Costa, where they insist on seeing proof that you have used the NHS app. Consequently, I’m now boycotting all branches of Costa.
Our local Costa couldn’t care less if you signed in with a copy of the Beano circa 1981.
landsake, I thought you had a right to decline consent to track and trace. Or is that one of those things that businesses are aallowed to do which becomes de facto compulsory?
Probably.
Yep- same here.
I know people who were using this: https://hack-and-trace.xyz/ but it’s down now.
I think that there are two apps, neither of which I have, and I don’t have a smartphone. One is the newer NHS Track and Trace, which as I understand is the thing that’s demanded in pubs and so forth.
The other is the older NHS App, which was originally intended (possibly benevolently) as a means of enabling GP patients to use technology to book appointments, get prescriptions and see some of their medical records. What has now been bolted on to this is the “Vaccine status”, where some additional, as yet unused data fields like car registration, NI number, criminal records and other stuff appeared on the NHS Digital website one day and disappeared the next. Clearly these fields are likely to be implemented and filled with data from other Government sources, which in effect transforms an NHS medical application into a “social credit”, surveillance and ID thing, still masquerading as a medical app. The NHS has now become the conduit for invading the privacy and liberty of the citizens of the UK. It’s more GCHQ than NHS.
I presume that under certain circumstances it will be necessary to have both apps; the T&T to enter somewhere and QR it, and the NHS App (medical version), now with vaccine status, to show that. No doubt the two will at some point be amalgamated, thus providing a perfect control mechanism over millions of people. All this renders the description of these gadgets as “telephones” somewhat inaccurate. “The Spy in Your Pocket” is closer to the truth.
Which is why the NHS is a terrible idea from a liberty perspective, (which ignores that its a dismal idea from a health and economic perspective.)
I was in Costa and the poster for the NHS app says it is ‘shown to helpt stop the spread of Covid’- I’d love to know how.
Divination?
I have to seriously wonder what is the point of an article like the above on this site?
What possible support does it offer to those resisting this tyranny? Who cares how many of the people ‘getting the vax’ get the app?
I think it’s useful to know what the enemy is up to, though more critical comment from the LS team would be good – though to be fair it’s a small team so I expect they simply don’t have time.
Will seems to make the time and put a lot of thought into his posts. Pity MC doesn’t.
Noah is good too. I have no idea how many hours they work or if they even get paid. Really needs a much bigger budget, full time staff, writers, scientists, lawyers, statisticians, market researchers
Julian I take your point but I am more than aware of what the enemy is up to because everywhere I go its blasted in my face.
I would prefer to know what the ‘resistance’ is doing and what the plans are for rallying and pushing back against govt totalitarianism.
If I am not going to find that here then there is more point in my coming and will look to find this elsewhere.
I agree that LS ideally ought to feature more stuff on resistance, more original pieces and research. As I’ve said elsewhere, they need a much bigger budget and full time professional multi disciplinary team.
As for knowing what the enemy is up to, I don’t read the newspapers or watch TV or listen to the radio or access mainstream news sites, so a digest of covid related stuff from the MSM is helpful to me
6 out of almost 70m isn’t many.
It IS when it comes to “deaths WITH Covid!!!”
I certainly won’t be using the app, Covid tests, or take the jab. From now on it’s total non compliance on my part. Shame on all of those who do!
Always had been with me. Start building a life away from all these control systems, refuse to go these places that operate like this, stay under the radar. I even tell people I won’t be seeing them of it involves complying with these measures. It’s hard but it’s also very liberating. Find places that treat you like a human being and give them your business. Life has changed, we’re never going back to where it was. We can change too, for the better.
“The Guardian report is worth reading in full.“
Useful perhaps as a textbook example of a sentence containing an internal contradiction.
I headline. Nothing is worth reading in full
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I really don’t see the point of this article on this forum.
I click on ‘Today’s Update’ and then this NHS App article disappears! Nowhere to be found! To get back here I had to click the ‘back button’ on my browser. There is a difference to this site when ‘logged in’ and ‘logged out’. It’s a bit weird.
(I am aware of the reddit lockdown sceptics site – one good thing about that is the newest comments are at the top – here there seems to be a lot of scrolling involved)
“Today’s update” I think is updated once a day, the front page is more rolling.
But it hasn’t “facilitated travel” has it? You can’t go anywhere much without huge costs on testing and quarantine on return, most destinations are restricted by negative Foreign Office advice, and even if you are prepared to ignore all this – as I did – finding a plane that is actually flying from an airport in the NW of England to where you want to get too is nigh on impossible! I finally made it to a Greek island via Athens after 12 cancelled flights. The NHS app hasn’t helped travel at all. We were told it would open up international travel – yet another lie by this awful government. I would be interested to know how many people deleted it after downloading it. It’s a huge imposition on our lives.
We live in Finland – as far as I can work out, flying to the UK involves buying a ‘Covid test’ and getting a negative result within 2 days of departure (fake test – but if you don’t pay, you can’t fly – and if they don’t like you they’ll put ‘positive’ as a result just to spite you).
The UK Gov demands you fork out £200 for a couple of plastic test kits Made in China (for days 2 and 8) before you can get on the plane. 10 days quarantine at your home address in the UK. Mitie snitches may visit you, phone you, track your phone.
For return flight another Covid test. That’s 8 tests for two people. Difficult to arrange test appointments to match flight times. Where to stay after testing and before flight?
And if one test is ‘positive’ then you’re fucked. New tests, new plane tickets – and where to quarantine for another 10 days – on the streets of London? More chance of a stabbing than catching Covid!
If this were really about a virus, they’d have let people take their chances, and it would be all forgotten by now. No – this is about people control. Absolute control.
I’m sure many have imagined an answer to all this in their minds, but only some brave hotheads have dared to express their thoughts publicly. So, it’s down to swearing and shaking our heads.
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I’m proud to say that my £4.50 pay-as-you-go mobile phone doesn’t even have a camera let alone the facility to download apps. If that means social isolation, so be it. I will not kowtow.
I’m the same. It’s actually very liberty to release yourself from system…And I promise you, you are not on you’re own!
“It is vital we embrace the momentum we have built-in using technology and innovation in the health and care sector over the last year as we look beyond the pandemic to improve treatment, care and the experiences of patients.”
Did CockFace really say this without irony!!?
I am disturbed by how easily people give away their privacy.
2019 my employer had a photographer document a year at our workplace, a public exhibition was planned for last year, it is now planned for October this year. I refused to take part and the photographer was very cooperative.
Another employer instructed an outside company to manage the company blog, by chance I read it the day a new article was published, which included that it had been my birthday. I was straight in my managers office demanding they remove that post. Why they were even given that information is beyond me. Funnily enough, a week later they offered me redundancy, which I took.
Handy to skip PCRs going abroad.
Unless you’re in Wales where you can’t use the app and have to telephone the government 5 working days after the second dose and order a letter which takes 2 weeks to arrive by post.
As an alternative to the NHS App, try this: https://hack-and-trace.me/
2.7 million selfish people with absolutely no foresight at all