Other issues and suggestions raised at the meeting

摘要

Another suggestion raised at the meeting was that patients could hold and be responsible for their own records.This would save money and the onus would be on the patient as to who then had access to this information.Harry Cayton,chairman of the Care Record Development Board,said that although the concept of a patient taking away the information in some form of microchip may be a possibility in the future,for most purposes direct and duplicate access to information will be needed by health care professionals,for example by the ambulance service in an emergency.