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"The national record represents a major cultural change for the health service, says Marlene Winfield, the patient lead for Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency running the programme. ‘This is a whole new way of record keeping – it is now a shared record between the patient and the clinician,’ said Winfield. ‘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. " http://www.vnunet.com/computing/analysis/2186139/electronic-nhs-record-sc heme Odd, I had thought that the Shared Care Record was shared between clinicians - with the patient allowed to view it in My Health Space! MaryH -- Mary Hawking