Venus - more evidence and research:
*References*
1. The impact of patient record access on appointments and telephone calls in two English general practices: a population based study London Journal of Primary Care 2014;6:xx–xx #2014 Royal College of General Practitioners
2. The King’s Fund “Supporting people to manage their health – an introduction to patient activation” Judith Hibbard Helen Gilburt 2004
3. The evolving concept of health literacy Don Nutbeam <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953608004577>,, Social Science & Medicine
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536> Volume 67, Issue 12 <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02779536/67/12>,
December 2008, Pages 2072–2078
4 Health literacy as a public health goal: a challenge for contemporary health education and communication strategies into the 21st century, Don Nutbeam
<http://heapro.oxfordjournals.org/search?author1=Don+Nutbeam&sortspec=dat...
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, A27, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
5. Personal communication The latest data on how many patients have signed up for full access to the GP electronic health record can be found here https://tinyurl.com/7renb99
6. Testing the health literacy of twenty Bangladeshi patients before and 5 months after they begin to access their GP electronic record Richard Fitton, Amir Hannan, Ingrid Brindle, Shafia Begum and Sarwar Shah Br J Gen Pract 2018; 68 (suppl 1): bjgp18X697133. *DOI:*
https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp18X697133
http://bjgp.org/content/68/suppl_1/bjgp18X697133
7. The view of a general practitioner on immediate access for patients to their laboratory test results - PubMed (nih.gov)
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30375343/>
8. Primary Care Patient Records in the United Kingdom: Past, Present, and Future Research Priorities - PubMed (nih.gov)
<https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30567695/>
HIFA profile: Richard Fitton is a retired family doctor - GP. Professional interests: Health literacy, patient partnership of trust and implementation of healthcare with professionals, family and public involvement in the prevention of modern lifestyle diseases, patients using access to professional records to overcome confidentiality barriers to care, patients as part of the policing of the use of their patient data Email address: richardpeterfitton7 AT gmail.com
