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[White Room]

I'll try that next time.

 

[Dan]

Will do Dan, the reason I asked was that I listen to a local radio station who deal with peoples problems and there was an elderly lady who had the same problem but again never had an accident, just had hospital appointments for an minor injury..

She got the calls ???

Perhaps proves my point. But worth looking into either way.

I'll certainly trace back a few so everybody who's getting annoyed by this try to too. We'll see what happens.

 

[White Room]

Could be interesting and who's selling information IMO

 

[Dan]

it doesn't stop the root of the problem but no companies are allowed to cold call you then. i'm registered and as soon as i mention that to cold callers they hang up

Me too, but there's a bit of an art to getting their details. Lead them into a comfort zone and sense of false security and lead them to believe you're heavily interested (whilst dodging their demands for payment or commitment) and you tend to find if you 'call back later after seeking approval from your superior' that you get some of the callers details. If we collate a bit of it, maybe we'll end up with some advice to provide?

 

[SandyFloor]

I've been getting regular texts for well over a year now about claiming £3750 for that accident I had.....I haven't had an accident! You have a number to text back to stop them but I always feel responding in any way is a mistake.

I wonder if it's just a coincidence they've gone for you and you've just been picked at random.

 

[doit4u]

Had a company ring me about 6 months after my daughter had an accident in her car. They wanted to help me claim for my"injuries". I said that the accident happened near my daughters home about 15 miles from where we live and that I was not in her car or the other one involved. They took some convincing that their info was wrong.

 

[SandyFloor]

Had a company ring me about 6 months after my daughter had an accident in her car. They wanted to help me claim for my"injuries". I said that the accident happened near my daughters home about 15 miles from where we live and that I was not in her car or the other one involved. They took some convincing that their info was wrong.

Was the car insured in your policy?

 

[kilty55]

scary to think the nhs are selling or someone within the nhs are selling peoples info on,well out of order imo what about patient confidentiality?

 

[Deleted member 9966]

I had a very similar conversation with my Mother about data sharing amongst government departments and bodies.

It all started with "what happens when a child reaches school age? do you contact the local schools directly or is there a central database where these details are held?"

My mum and I figured out that from the day you're born, you're registered at birth (legal government requirement otherwise you have no eligibility to stay in the UK) and you start to appear on NHS databases at GP surgeries etc. I think it's likely that you are also given your NI number from birth too. So all this data soon starts to mount up and before you know it, your parents receive a letter stating that you are now of school age and should enroll at the local school.

What wouldn't surprise me about Mark's situation is if the NHS has actually sold data on to ambulance chasers in return for big wads of cash under some patient service improvement guise.

 

[SandyFloor]

Beam, when you were off work did you claim on any insurance such as mortgage payment or loss of earnings?