On 25/03/07, Mary Hawking <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 'We must not underestimate the impact of giving patients access to
> their records on how they relate to the NHS because, for the first time,
> it gives patients control over who sees their information and what they
> see,' she said. "
If this is true then doctors will need to keep their own personal
records of clinical encounters. And it still could be tricky from a
medico-legal point of view, because one might need to establish which
parts of the patient's medical information was available to the doctor
at the time.
Mike
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Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK
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