Startling revelations, as covered in The Register, appear in a risk analysis commissioned by Connecting for Health. The internal document calculates that patient care would probably be safer using locally held computer records rather than the Government’s proposals for patient records to be stored on a national database or “spine”.

A copy of the Department of Health (DH) document can be found here: November – NHS Care Records Report.pdf [693 kB PDF file] – download Adobe Acrobat Reader.