It kind of happens anyway..
You have a set of medical notes in the hospital you have attended, and your GP has a record of your attendances and medications.
The GP ends up with letters from the hospital detailing whatever treatments you have while an in or out patient.
If you are an inpatient for any length of time, a hospital doctor asks the GP for their info.
I presume the idea is to attempt to simplify the whole system to have pertinent info available where ever you turn up.
so far, so benign….
It’s the data security and the ability to access the data which is a potential problem. Trusts are quite strict about who views things now; I’ve had relatives treated in the hospital where I work and I didn’t go anywhere near any medical results or x-rays for anyone while they were in, because people have been disciplined for looking at results they shouldn’t have. But they still looked…