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NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards for the Emergency Care Summary.
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NHS Surrey drops coaching service
A primary care trust has dropped its health coaching service from private contractor Bupa Health Dialog, as the row over the consent model for telephone support services continues.
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ICW works on New York e-prescriptions
German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US e-prescribing network. The partners will create an e-health prototype project to enable e-prescription transmission between different healthcare organisations across New York, through the Statewide Health information Network for New York (SHIN-NY). If patients provide their […]
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Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database
A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, a major new report on government databases has claimed. Serious concerns are also raised about the NHS Summary Care Record Service, and its potential for abuse, with an independent […]
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Health coaches get access to patient records
A primary care trust is planning to set up a health coaching service giving Bupa health coaches access to patient information unless residents opt-out within a short timeframe.
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Data sharing clause 152 dropped
The government has dropped its controversial plans to make it easier to share personal data across Whitehall departments. Justice Secretary Jack Straw has announced that he has asked for clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill to be withdrawn from the legislation to allow for further consultation. The clause prompted widespread concern among privacy bodies […]
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Coroners Bill protest escalates
Eight healthcare organisations have called for medical records to be excluded from the data-sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice Bill, in the latest stage of the campaign against them. The organisations, which include the British Medical Association, Royal College of Surgeons and Royal College of General Practitioners, have written to justice secretary Jack Straw […]
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BCS and ICO join Coroners protest
The British Computer Society and the Information Commissioner’s Office have joined the growing swell of concern about the data sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice Bill. The BCS says it is concerned that the Bill, which is now making its way through Parliament, “runs counter to the intentions and provisions of the Data Protection […]
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SCR access widens again
Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a series of pilot projects over the next few months, NHS Connecting for Health has revealed. The expansion in the types of NHS staff who can access the SCR will be piloted in early adopter primary […]
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Child health strategy to share information
The government plans to promote information sharing across settings to deliver improvements in the health of children and young people, according to a strategy published this week. Healthy lives, brighter futures: the strategy for children and young people’s health says feedback from frontline staff suggests they sometimes feel constrained as to when they can share […]
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