securing distributed partial medical records?

[Roger Hayter]

In message <4A6E2B02.2050202 at gmail.com>, Adrian Midgley 
<amidgley at gmail.com> writes
>Roland Perry wrote:
>> In article <4A6E01EE.3060507 at gmail.com>, Adrian Midgley
>> <amidgley at gmail.com> writes
>>>> ... local GP and ask your GP's
>>>> receptionist face-to-face to see your paper records.
>>>
>>> My records are not paper.
>>
>> My hospital records are. About two inches think now. And still the first
>> question they ask is always "when did you first get treatment for this,
>> and why". I think it must actually be small-talk to keep me engaged
>> while they read the bits they really want to know.
>
>
>Hospital, yes.
>
>But they are not accessible from your GP.
>
>Or to your GP.
>
>The indexing is sufficiently poor - absent usually - that it is probably
>an effort to seek effectively to the right part of the file.
>

There is a lot to be said for giving people copies of their hospital 
records, probably paper (I include CDs here)  copies at present, or at 
least letters, blood tests and imaging.  This works well elsewhere. 
This transfers the responsibility  to those best able to assess needs 
and threats. An occasional GP summary would also be useful. Those who 
want to could scan it all.

I am aware of the threat entailed to the 10 minute consultation.
-- 
Roger Hayter