Out-of-hours doctors first to use NHS database - The Guardian 25th October 2007

Doctors providing out-of-hours care in north-west England will be the first to get access to a controversial database storing summaries of patients' medical records, NHS chiefs disclosed yesterday. The scheme was criticised by the British Medical Association and computer privacy experts last year when ministers unveiled plans to put the medical records of 50 million patients on to an electronic national database known as the Spine.

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