Microchips could be installed in urinals to spy on your wee, a minister has suggested.
It might sound bizarre, but it could ease pressure on the NHS by identifying potential diseases in people’s urine.
Health secretary Steve Barclay compared the toilet plan to sharing information on Facebook or Instagram.
Speaking at the Spectator Health conference, he said: ‘I think if patients want to be able to get early treatment and are therefore willing to lean on their data, providing that can be done in the right way with the right safeguards that is the conversation we should be having.’
Many illnesses can be identified through urine such as kidney problems and sexually transmitted diseases.
Labour said the plans were ‘taking the p**s’.
Shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, said NHS waiting times are already down the toilet after 12 years of Tory rule.
‘Instead he should adopt Labour’s plan, abolish non-doms and train thousands of new doctors and nurses,’ he told The Sun.
Some Tory MPs are against the plans, accusing the government of flirting with the nanny state.
One said: ‘This ridiculous idea should just be flushed down the toilet. The Conservative Party needs to lose its appetite for big nanny state and fast.
‘Any policy that invades the right to privacy without explicit consent – including bugging toilets, should be dropped.’
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