Coming soon to a country near you: Big brother to log your drinking habits and waist size as GPs are forced to hand  over confidential records

• Data includes weight, cholesterol, BMI,  family health history and pulse rate
• Doctors will be forced to reveal alcohol  consumption and smoking status
• Privacy campaigners described it as ‘biggest  data grab in NHS history’
• Part of new Health Service programme called  Everyone Counts
• Officials insisted data will be anonymous  and deleted after analysis

Sounds like great news if you want the government to take care of you.