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Dr Mark Coley, BMA’s GP Committee for England IT lead
8 April 2026

BMA calls for GPs to control single patient record data

The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for doctors to remain in control of GP data in the single patient
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Professor Victoria Tzortziou Brown, chair of the Royal College of GPs (RCGP)
4 March 2026

Doctors raise safety concerns about AI discharge summary tool

Doctors groups have raised safety concerns over plans to roll out an AI-Assisted Discharge Summary tool nationally through the FDP.
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Dr Tom Dolphin, British Medical Association (BMA) council chair
9 February 2026

BMA calls for NHS doctors to reject using the FDP

The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for NHS doctors to limit usage of the federated data platform (FDP).
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Stephen Kinnock, care minister
5 November 2025

Care minister discusses GP online consultation issues with ICBs

Care minister Stephen Kinnock held a call with ICB leaders to identify areas that are struggling to roll out online
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Wes Streeting says technology frees up hospital appointments
18 September 2025

Safeguards are needed for online consultation changes, says BMA

The government and NHSE have not listened to GPs' concerns around changes to online consultations from 1 October, said the
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Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
24 July 2025

Two NHS hospitals suffer major IT incident ahead of doctors’ strikes

Two NHS hospitals have resorted to paper after an IT incident brought systems down in the days before the planned
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Coffee Time Briefing
3 July 2025

Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕

This Coffee Time Briefing includes STADA's Health Report 2025 and its findings on trust in AI and a partnership for
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GP on phone
4 July 2024

BMA advises GPs not to share cloud-based telephony call data with NHSE

The BMA's GP Committee England has warned that NHS England could use cloud-based telephony data to ‘performance manage’ GP practices.
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Online medical record electronic patient record EPR
30 November 2022

Automatic roll-out of Citizen Access to GP records halted at eleventh hour

In a last-minute decision NHS England has halted the roll-out of a scheme that would have given all NHS patients
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GP at desk
7 June 2021

BMA and RCGP issue joint letter to NHS Digital over GPDPR programme

The pair have issued a joint letter to NHS Digital to express concerns about the General Practice Data for Planning
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