It would ideal if we had a composite health record.
I'm also very conscious, with the growing use of wearable devices, that our health information now spans far wider than it did in the past. For example, I'm wearing a device that measures my heart rate periodically, and my exercising. It would be good if it could all be consolidated into a single place, so that when I go to see my doctor, they're aware not only of the health service interventions in my life but also of my lifestyle.
Again, I think it's making the citizen the custodian, or at least having the citizen have access and control so they can decide what they want to share among different officials. I would happily share any medical data from my wearable devices with my doctor. When I go to see them, they can either validate whether I'm telling the truth about how much I exercise or at least get insight into some of my lifestyle that would enable them to provide better health care to me.
I think it's an important point that's sometimes missed, particularly with the system we have in the U.K. at the moment, that more and more health data is no longer held exclusively within the health care system. As consumers and citizens, we're going to be generating quite a lot of useful medical information that also needs to come into those records.
I'm basically agreeing that it would be nice if there were a very highly trusted place where we could store both the medical service data and our own personal health acquired data, so that there would be a single health data repository that would enable medical professionals to give us the best possible care.