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15 June 2010

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
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15 June 2010

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
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10 June 2010

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
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18 May 2010

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
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5 May 2010

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
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30 April 2010

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
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22 April 2010

PCTs push on with SCR despite DH stop

NHS organisations are seeking special dispensation to push ahead with the Summary Care Record, despite the Department of Health's agreement
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20 April 2010

GPs told to tee up SCR information drive

GP practices have been advised to educate their patients about the Summary Care Record while the suspension of its roll-out
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16 April 2010

SCR roll-out suspended

The Department of Health has suspended the roll-out of the Summary Care Record in the five strategic health authorities where
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6 April 2010

GPs’ future should include IT incentives

GP practices should be offered financial incentives to support data quality and to move to paperless practices, according to GP
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