Patients to be able to veto spine uploads
Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the NHS spine summary care record, stating that patients will now have the right to request their details not be uploaded. Lord Warner announced the concession at a press conference yesterday to announce the publication of […]
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Coventry and Warwicks switches to automated reporting
University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust has implemented DataWatch Europe’s Monarch Data Pump – an automated reporting system which can combine and manipulate data into a format that suits the user. UHCW has the largest new university ‘super’ hospital in Britain and sees one million patients a year with around 30,000 appointments […]
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Worskshops aim to boost C+B uptake
The Department of Health is to hold a workshop in every strategic health authority in England in an attempt to boost uptake of Choose and Book. The ten sessions, to be held in January and early February next year, will include presentations from the national Choose and Book team and high performing local health communities […]
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Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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Ministerial review to back summary care records
The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national electronic patient record database beginning with summary records. The government’s patients’ tsar Harry Cayton will today say the system, which will hold records for 50m people in England, is needed to modernise the NHS. Cayton […]
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Revised plan for ‘sealed envelopes’ published
Sealed envelopes are likely to become available from 2008/9, according to the latest briefing paper from NHS Connecting for Health which outlines plans to allow patients to make clinical information invisible if they choose. The revised plans for sealed envelopes mean that patients can opt to have sensitive information “sealed” or “sealed and locked” from […]
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East Surrey goes live with new maternity system
East Surrey Hospital has gone live with the first implementation of a new maternity information system called Eclipse MIS. The system from Huntleigh Healthcare has been implemented over the past six months and required the migration of 25,000 patient records from the maternity unit’s old Protos system. The unit handles 4,000 deliveries a year and […]
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Survey shows small improvement in patient choice
More patients are remembering being offered choice, according to the latest results of the Department of Health’s National Patient Choice Survey. Over 75,000 patients, referred to hospital by their GP, responded to the July survey between the 17 and 30 July, with 35% indicating that they were offered a choice of hospitals, up 5% from […]
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BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project
A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including putting one hold current plans for a national system of summary records and for the scope of NHS Care Records Service to fundamentally re-defined. Rather than attempt to build a monolithic national database of records […]
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NHS ramps up spend on management consultants
Spending on management consultants across the public sector has reached a record a record £3bn a year, with an increase of over a third in the past two years, according to new figures released by the National Audit Office. The increase in spending over the past two years is largely driven by the increased use […]
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