Preparing the NHS for the AI Era: A Digital Health Record for Every Citizen (19 August 2024)

I think it's a good idea but it won't work without the infrastructure to support it and possibly a Citizen ID card.

The paper seems to be regurgitating ideas from Estonia etc. without the basics in place to make it happen.

If Lord Darzi advocates this within his review there will be a lot of pushback. It will cost significant chunks of money to put the 'basics' in place, which the Government can't seem to afford at the moment.

The other key thing that the paper doesn't make as explicit as it should is that the Digital Health Record should be owned by THE PATIENT.