HealthSpace

House of Commons - Health - Sixth Report includes lots of interesting detail, including this on HealthSpace:

13. HealthSpace is an excellent addition to the SCR programme and has huge potential to improve the safety and efficiency of care by allowing patients to check the accuracy of their SCR and to access detailed information about their own health. In order to take fuller advantage of HealthSpace, we recommend that Connecting for Health:

• Trial the use of HealthSpace for patients, particularly those with long-term conditions, to record their own measurements of key health information;
• Ensure that HealthSpace allows patients to view audit trails, showing who has accessed their SCR record and under what circumstances, and offers mechanisms for investigating inappropriate access;
• Promote the use of HealthSpace, monitor levels of uptake, and ensure that there is equitable access across the country and that coercive access is prevented; and
• Commission an independent evaluation of HealthSpace once the system is widely available. (Paragraph 122)

14. We note that in France patients will own their national summary record. This approach gives patients more control over who can access their record and more opportunity to influence and take control of their own care. We therefore recommend that Connecting for Health consider a similar model for the SCR in England. (Paragraph 123)

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