Patient Online Record Access in English Primary Care: Qualitative Survey Study of General Practitioners' Views.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2022, NHS England announced plans to ensure that all adult primary care patients in England would have full online access to new data added to their general practitioner (GP) record. However, this plan has not yet been fully implemented. Since April 2020, the GP contract in England has already committed to offering patients full online record access on a prospective basis and on request. However, there has been limited research into UK GPs' experiences and opinions about this practice innovation.

Objective

This study aimed to explore the experiences and opinions of GPs in England about patients' access to their full web-based health record, including clinicians' free-text summaries of the consultation (so-called "open notes").

Methods

In March 2022, usin

SUBMITTER: Blease C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996425 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature