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| For patients' sake, don't boycott e-health records | | Author(s) | Marlene Winfield |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 335 no 7611, 21 July 2007 |
| Pages | p 158 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Information technology ; Attitude ; General practitioners. |
| Annotation | The author is national patient lead, NHS Connecting for Health, London, and gives a personal view on the decision of the British Medical Association (BMA) advising general practitioners to boycott the creation of summary care records for their patients. The author does not accept that the risks of a breach of confidentiality about health information on a patient's record justifies a wholesale boycott by GPs. The patient will have several options to safeguard what health information is on the summary care record on the national database, and GPs should be reassured by this process. The author concludes that "True collaboration produces better outcomes for both patients and the NHS than paternalism". (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070809204 A |
| Classmark | L4: UVB: DP: QT6 * |
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