Who Owns and Who Has Access to Your Electronic Medical Records | UKDHC Webinar

Who owns your electronic medical record? It sounds like a simple question - but the answer involves your NHS trust, your GP, your tech provider, and a legal concept most people have never heard of. Chaired by Angus Wallace and David Wright of UKDHC. In this UKDHC webinar, Professor Angus Wallace breaks down who really holds your health data, what rights you have over it, and why the gap between policy and practice matters more than most people realise. The conversation gets into: why your medical record is more like a bank balance than a document you own, the legal concept of "bailment" and what it means for patients, how EPR architecture distributes data ownership across patients, NHS organisations, clinical teams, IT departments, and tech providers - and why that complexity creates real governance challenges. From role-based access control and the balancing act of clinical permissions, to AI's potential to anonymise data for innovation and why the NHS should be paying attention, UKDHC is breaking down the barriers to digital health care tools, one webinar at a time. Learn more at ukdhc.org.