%0 Journal Article
%T 'We Have Your Medical Record on File': Researching Unpopular Government Policy
%A Trisha Greenhalgh
%J Opticon1826
%D 2008
%I Ubiquity Press
%R 10.5334/opt.050810
%X The English Department of Health recently introduced the Internet-accessible Summary Care Record (SCR), a summary of personal medical data intended for emergency use and drawn from the GP-held record of NHS patients. The SCR is the most controversial component of the ¡ê12 billion NHS IT project. If it goes to plan, around 40 million medical records will be uploaded, and up to a million staff in ten thousand organisations will have access to them. Countless megabytes of sensitive personal data will be available to staff who can claim a ¡®legitimaterelationship¡¯ to the patient (and, say critics, to nosey receptionists and hackers).
%K healthcare policy
%U http://www.opticon1826.com/article/view/87