HC Deb 29 April 2002 vol 384 cc621-2W
Dr. Fox

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what proportion of patients have access to electronic personal medical records. [47001]

Yvette Cooper

At present no official figures are available on the proportion of patients who have been given direct on-line, secure access to their electronic medical records. However, we are aware of a number of sites who have taken forward work in this area. These include the Bury Knowle Health Centre (Oxford) and the Hadfield Medical Centre (Derbyshire) funded by the electronic record development and implementation programme (ERDIP). These sites, as well as the work being taken forward by the ERDIP site in south Staffordshire (how to satisfy requirement of law, ethic and policy), will inform policy development and any future national rollout.

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