Patient access to medical records: What is happening with the rollout in England?

What is being rolled out?Patients in England, but not the rest of the UK, are being promised automatic access to all their new GP records through the NHS app by 30 November 2022. That includes results, vaccination history, medication lists, hospital letters, and consultation notes made by healthcare staff during appointments with a GP or practice nurse.Are things on track?There’s been confusion and delay. The Accelerated Citizens’ Access programme, led by NHS England, was meant to start on 1 November. EMIS and TPP, companies that supply IT systems to general practices, announced a pause to the scheme until there was full confidence in it. The BMA’s General Practitioners Committee had called for a halt to give practices more time to prepare to offer their patients the scheme in line with the Data Protection Act and safeguarding measures.1What does NHS England say?For practices that ask EMIS and TPP by 5 pm…
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