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4 July 2005

‘Choose and Book’ will improve, says Pringle

Choose and book will improve over this summer, Professor Mike Pringle, GP lead for NHS Connecting for Health has pledged.
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29 June 2005

Calls for clarity in spirited BMA confidentiality debate

Doctors queued up to speak on the confidentiality issues raised by centralised electronic records in a lively open debate at the
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28 June 2005

Choose and Book a ‘fiasco’, claims BMA chair

The chairman of the British Medical Association has criticised the government’s choice agenda and dubbed Choose and Book a “fiasco”
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27 June 2005

BMA chair to lead top level IT working party

The British Medical Association is to suspend its information management committee and replace it with a top level working party
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20 June 2005

GPs vote against NHS Connecting for Health

Despite improved relationships with the leadership of the BMA, last week’s Local Medical Committees’ (LMC) conference revealed just how far
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7 June 2005

Computer access for hospital doctors poor, say BMA

Some hospital doctors are expressing concerns that they do not have enough access to computers and e-mail to do their
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31 May 2005

Electronic record content still up for discussion

The question of what information will go on a local record and what will go on a national summary record
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26 May 2005

Comments wanted on Care Record Guarantee

Questions about the content of local health records and summary records and the options patients should have on information recorded
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24 May 2005

Patients becoming apprehensive of NHS CRS

Patients are contacting their GPs with concerns about the confidentiality of their data held on GP computer systems as awareness
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20 May 2005

Patients to get veto on details recorded to spine

Patients may after all be allowed to decide to withhold sensitive information from the central electronic record system, known as
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