BMJ  2007;335:222 (4 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.39289.669178.BE

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Summary care records

Confusion in the BMA?

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Winfield tells us that the BMA is advising general practitioners to boycott the provision of summary care records.1 So the BMA is proposing that the patient must actively opt out of the use of his corpse, but also proposes to deny said patient the opportunity to opt in to the care of his live health. As a doctor I don't get it. As a patient I resent it.

Lyall M Eccles, retired general practitioner

Billingshurst RH14 0SY

lyallcake@ukonline.co.uk

Competing interests: The views expressed are LME's own. LME's son is clinical director of Connecting for Health.

  1. Winfield M. For patients' sake, don't boycott e-health records. BMJ 2007;335:158. (21 July.)[Free Full Text]

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For patients' sake, don't boycott e-health records
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