Rollout of patient access to records is paused amid safety concerns

The health secretary has said that the scheme to allow patients in England access to prospective medical records held by GPs will launch before the end of November despite doctors raising safety concerns about the rollout.EMIS and TPP, companies that supply IT systems to general practices and were to switch on the citizens’ access patient data programme from 1 November, announced a pause to the scheme until there was full confidence in it.On 25 October the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee called for a halt to the rollout, saying that some practices needed more time to prepare to offer their patients the scheme in line with the Data Protection Act and safeguarding measures.1The scheme, led by NHS England, would automatically have given patients the ability to see any new entries to their GP medical record through the NHS App. But the BMA instructed practices that were not ready to launch the…
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