Opposition calls for rethink on data storage
The debate over healthcare data security took a political turn as the opposition called on the government to change its plans for central data storage.
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HealthSpace opening up to ‘advanced’ users
Registration has started for ‘advanced accounts’ offering patients the opportunity to view their Summary Care Records on HealthSpace, the NHS online personal health register. The service has opened up in tandem with the launch of the first Summary Care Records (SCRs). Nearly 50,000 of the summaries drawn from GP records in participating practices in Bolton […]
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Summary Care Record launched in Bolton
The first 48,500 summaries of patient records have been uploaded to the NHS Spine and out-of-hours staff in the Bolton pilot area will start using them over the next few weeks.
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DH explains summary and detailed records
Guidance on how the two elements of the NHS electronic patient record – the detailed and summary records – will work in England has been released by the Department of Health. The guidance re-iterates that only the Summary Care Record (SCR) will be a national system, and that patients can opt-out from data being visible […]
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Granger says NPfIT programme substantially delivered
Richard Granger, the chief executive of Connecting for Health, today said that the NHS IT project has been substantially delivered with key component programmes now nearing completion, though 90% of acute trusts have yet to get new systems. In a key development he said that live trials of the patient summary care record would begin ‘within days’, the […]
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Lessons already being learned from early adopters
Dr Gillian Braunold explains how pragmatism and common sense are the touchstone of the summary care record early adopters, which are already shaping policy for future roll-out.
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Extra suppliers catalogue tender welcomed by industry
Reaction to last week’s publication of the tender for a catalogue of additional healthcare IT suppliers was broadly positive, generating questions about how soon the extra solutions and services would be available not whether the new approach was a good idea. Predictably, the supplier community welcomed the opportunity opened up by the tender. Nick Kalisperas […]
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SCR opt-out sets ‘onerous’ conditions, says GP
Patients who want to opt-out from having a Summary Care Record will have to apply for exemption under section 10 of the Data Protection Act, on the grounds that it will cause them ‘substantial damage or distress’, according to new GP guidance. Dr Paul Cundy, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee Information Technology subcommittee, told […]
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out
The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at two GP practices in Bolton, in the north-west of England. Approximately 14,500 patients will have a summary of the GP record, containing details of name, address, medication history, serious illnesses and allergies, uploaded to a […]
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Ambulance trusts join map data sharing deal
Ambulance trusts in England will now have the opportunity to share geographical data with other trusts as part of a deal between the Health and Social Care Information Centre and Ordnance Survey. The Ordnance Survey has announced that 31 ambulance trusts will now be able to join the agreement, signed in November 2005. They will […]
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