I don't want to scare anybody, but there will be nothing to stop me or my colleagues looking up anything we want to. Well, I don't know who you are or what you do, but I assume that if you have been given access to view health records you will have a legitimate reason to do so. If not, then you leave yourself open to prosecution. No change to the existing situation then. I liken this to the occasional trouble we have over the Official Secrets Act. If I have a legitimate reason to see something confidential, as a professional person I have to sign up to the fact that I will teat it in the manner in which it is due. The same with medical records. I know any number of people who deal with records to prep for clinics etc, and all have signed confidentiality clauses as part of their employment, and have CRB check as a matter of course. Clinician presumably have a hypocratic oath to cover this, not sure about the other checks and balances for them. So, we come bak to the question about why I would want to view something I had no reason to - back to the argument that we shouldn't have a computerised system because there are some evil people out there. As a wise man once said - I blame the scapegoats!