“GPs have been advised to be “constantly alert” to potential threats to patient confidentiality and privacy as their representatives back an opt-in model for data sharing.
This week’s National Local Medical Committees’ conference supported a five point motion which backed GPs role as data holder for patient records, called for an opt-in approach to transfer of identifiable information and demanded that patients should be able to ask for a list of when their Summary Care Record has been accessed and by whom and objected to “obstacles” placed in the path of those wishing to restrict access to their records.”
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care, 12 June 2009
