TY - JOUR T1 - Connecting for Health JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 279 LP - 280 DO - 10.3399/bjgp08X279823 VL - 58 IS - 549 AU - Ross Anderson Y1 - 2008/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/58/549/279.abstract N2 - In an editorial in your March issue,1 senior officials from the Department of Health claimed of the Summary Care Record (SCR) that ‘It is a health record and there will be no access for police, immigration authorities, or others.’This credulous view was undermined when Computer Weekly noted that the health minister Ben Bradshaw had already told parliament last year that the police have access given a court order, or where there is statutory authority, or where there is an overriding public interest.2 As I had pointed out in my February editorial to which the Department was responding,3 the police have always been able to get a court order to seize material that is actual evidence … ER -