First Online Health Accounts Go Live 

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Patients will be able to track details on the web

NHS patients will this month have electronic access to their medical data for the first time through the HealthSpace project developed as part of the £12bn health service IT programme.

Using an online account, patients will be able to track details such as blood pressure, manage appointments and access their summary care record, from the national database.

Initial pilots will be small. Connecting for Health (CfH), which runs the central IT scheme, anticipates take-up by less than 10 per cent of the population, but HealthSpace still represents a significant change to the relationship between doctors and patients, according to national patient lead Marlene Winfield.

Read the article about first online health accounts going live on Computing's website