TY - JOUR T1 - COMMENTARY JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 782 LP - 782 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X532495 VL - 60 IS - 579 AU - Paul Hodgkin Y1 - 2010/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/579/782.abstract N2 - There are two circumstances when I might want to share my medical information: to improve my own care or to improve everyone's care through better planned, efficient services.England's roll out of the Summary Care Record managed to mix these two up with disastrous results: people think they have agreed to a small, unexceptional subset of their data being uploaded to the spine so that should they have a heart attack while on holiday everyone can see that they are diabetic or allergic to penicillin. But buried in the consent are words … ER -