Roger Huffadine

WORCESTER

CTO

Dead Bodies Everywhere
I'll say it again - Old people lose things like cards. The idea that you can't have NHS treatment without your card is stupid. the Older folk are the ones who have - so far - put most into the UK and are the very ones whom Blunkett is threatening to exclude from treatment on the NHS.
Like all 'secure' systems this will need a trapdoor to permit folk who 'claim' to have lost their cards to get treatment and that is the area where the fraud will happen.
Just like 'chip and PIN' where if you claim to have forgotten your PIN number the merchant can opt to conduct a signature transaction - there are always trapdoors to let fraudsters in.
So why bother - you can't stop the fraud you can only make it a bit more difficult - in this case with disproportionate cost.