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The Access to Health Records Act 1990 gave them the right to inspect their own records. The Data Protection Act 1998 and the Data Protection Act 2018 apply to medical records as to other records. Only 3% of GPs in England offered online record access in October 2014 to patients although all of them were expected to by April 2015. [3]
In May and June 2021, over 1.2 million repeat prescriptions and 100,000 GP appointments were arranged through the app. [20] By mid-July, eight weeks after the addition of COVID-19 vaccination status, over 10 million users had registered with the app. [20] By June 2022 there were 28 million patients registered. In the year to May 2022 over 16 ...
EMIS is one of the suppliers approved by the GP Systems of Choice and so funded by the NHS. Through its Patient Access service, EMIS was the first clinical system providers to enable patients to book GP appointments online and order repeat prescriptions. [11] Patient Access also enables patients to access their own records online. [12]
In 2019 only 10% of NHS trusts claimed to be fully digitised. The NHS Long Term Plan requires all hospitals to move to digital records by 2023, so clinicians can access and interact with patient records and care plans wherever they are. As of 2019, 62% of trusts have plans to digitise all their patient records. [11]
TPP are involved in the development of electronic patient record systems converting large numbers of paper records into digital form. [2] This enables GPs, community services and care homes to share access to records, with the patient's consent, enabling the ordering of clinical tests and medication without the need to visit the institution.
The initial content of the database was to include the following: Drugs which the patient has been prescribed [6]; Known adverse reactions to drugs; Known allergies; In his announcement on 10 October 2010, the Health Secretary implied that its scope would in future be restricted to these three items, stating but that it would 'hold only the essential medical information needed in an emergency ...
[2] The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust was the first to deploy the technology in June 2010, which was in Release 1.9 at the time. [3] Humber NHS Foundation Trust was the first mental health organisation to use the DXC Lorenzo patient record systems in June 2012. [4]
Sue Arnott a GP serving 5,000 patients in Shotts, Lanarkshire began using askMyGP in 2018 after two colleagues at the practice retired. [6] In November 2021 she temporarily shut down the askMyGP service, and reportedly 70% of patients were managed online and some were receiving insufficient treatment.