The centralised and totalistic nature of the British National Health Service make it uniquely suitable for large-scale top-down driven experiments and pilot tests.  This video by former investigative journalist zedphoenix:

... argues that documentary evidence in his possession and publicly available resources on-line reveal the intention to revolutionise health delivery across the country, based on the digitalisation groundworks laid by NHS England, NHSX and NHS Digital (the latter of two of which will merge into a single Transformation Directorate from May of this year).  Manifestly, the Covid crisis and its associated vaxxing had been key to launching a digital passporting system.  But NHSX went live three years ago, and the programme is rolling forward regardless of the failure with the virus to go the whole way.  The intent is unchanged. 

Much of the digitalisation/data issue has been discussed by Brian Gerrish and Co at UK Column since 2019 at least. But Zed’s additional documentation has enabled him to arrive at a much more complete picture of what seems all too likely to lie ahead.  That picture includes:

1. The shift from hospital treatment to home treatment.
2. Diagnosis and prescription only by AI, eventually without medical professional oversight.
3. The closure of local doctor’s surgeries and of the great majority of hospitals, and the redundancy of up to 75% of NHS staff.
4. Constant monitoring of all of us by means of “wearables” on our person (and, presumably, by implant at some point).
5. Food-intake and life-style dictate (which one would imagine would be linked to a programmable digital currency so alternative foods cannot be purchased by you and me.  It’s bugs or nothing.

... and so on, along the merry way to “Sustainable Development”.

None of this is subject to parliamentary debate.  No new laws need to be made, though one would hope that aspects of it should come before the Health and Social Care Parliamentary Committee.  Having said that, the committee has just taken evidence on the future of general practice, with an depressingly “look the other way” agenda of exploring “regional variation in general practice, the general practice workload, and the partnership model of general practice”.

If Zed’s right it’s going to take every lorry on the road and then some to get this stopped!

It seems to me that a Great Charter of Our Freedom, somewhat akin in form if not, of course, content to the Leveller’s Manifesto, is required to take out to all the people for agreement and signature, and that the above five government crimes in commission now constitute a fair basis for its Health section.  I might have a think about that.  One to put in the hands of Laurence Fox’s party, and let them go at it.

UPDATE

I’ve just been taking a look at the WEF health “platform” page, and here is the lead copy:

Transforming systems to keep more people healthy.

The World Economic Forum is committed to using new models of public-private collaboration to develop more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems.

We aim to move past our capital-intensive, hospital-centric healthcare delivery model, which is unsustainable and ineffective – and to create new opportunities to advance the use of data-enabled systems and virtual care.