The National Care Record Service opens the door to a new way for England to keep and process health information about its population. My aim was to determine if the NCRS could be described as an ethically acceptable system, not ideal, but acceptable. The growth in computer technology and the developments in data exchange mean that we need to think more carefully about how personal information initially enters the electronic world. The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK largely relies on implied consent for the disclosure of data throughout the service. Implied consent may have been...