Connecting for Health director damaging own credibility

How can NHS Connecting for Health director Richard Grainger expect to be taken seriously when he meets entirely justified concerns over database security with this kind of bluster?

"Concerns about data security may be marshalled by an active lobby of healthy sceptics to the detriment of the ill, and avoidable fatalities will result."

Shroud-waving, ad hominen and entirely missing the point.