Almost £100m spent on fast-growing SCR
Almost £100m has been spent on the Summary Care Record programme to date, and new figures have shown that 200,000 SCRs were created in just seven days in June, when it was supposedly under review.
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ARM doesn’t call for end of NPfIT or SCR
Doctors’ representatives have stopped short of backing calls for the withdrawal of co-operation from the Summary Care Record programme. They have also refused to seek cancellation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. GPs and hospital doctors at the BMA’s annual representative meeting did, however, endorse the BMA’s policy that patients should be […]
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NHS ordered to halve management costs
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at least £222m in management costs this year.
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SCR evaluation finds few benefits
The final report of a three year evaluation of the Summary Care Record has found that it has yet to deliver significant benefits, despite “high cost and enormous effort.”
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Greenhalgh slams Burns SCR review
The leader of the independent Summary Care Record review has described the government’s promise to doctors to conduct another review as an “absolute disgrace.”
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LMCs want IT performance standards
GPs have called upon the BMA’s GP Committee to negotiate minimum performance standards for IT systems, arguing that these would make it easier to hold suppliers to account. Speaking at the Local Medical Committees Conference in London last week, Dr Martin Beastall, a GP from Doncaster, said: “In modern practice, computers are as vital a […]
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GP leader names his NHS savings
Parts of NHS Direct, the Choose and Book service and the current ‘consent to view’ model of the Summary Care Record should all be reviewed to save money in the financial crisis, the BMA’s GP leader, Dr Laurence Buckman, said today. With NHS trusts under pressure to achieve efficiency savings of up to £20 billion […]
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GP labels SCR up-load a ‘disaster’
A GP whose practice has just uploaded Summary Care Records has heavily criticised the process, which she claims has been a "disaster." Dr Linda Parker is a principal at one of four GP practices based at Roebuck House in Hastings, East Sussex, which have begun uploading records over the past two to three weeks. Dr […]
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DH and BMA say as you were on SCR
Primary care trusts will be allowed to create and upload Summary Care Records so long as GP practices agree, the Department of Health and the BMA have agreed.
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Cundy: SCR suspension ‘means nothing’
Dr Paul Cundy has said that the Department of Health’s statement about the suspension of the Summary Care Record in areas where its roll-out has been accelerated “means nothing.”
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