Doctors voice concerns over plan for greater patient access to medical records

Misgivings about safety and confidentiality over Jeremy Hunt's plans to enable patients to access GP record via smartphone and to add information themselves

The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has announced plans to give patients in England access to their entire medical record by 2018, and to let them read and add to their GP record using their smartphone within a year.

The announcement at NHS England's annual conference in Manchester prompted fears of a repeat of last year's row over care.data, a programme in which patient records were shared outside the NHS without their consent. The opposition forced NHS England to halt the scheme temporarily while it addressed the concerns.