First day of the PROMs
The Department of Health has issued instructions to the NHS on the action that needs to be taken to deliver Patient Reported Outcome Measures from April. The use of PROMs in the health service was first outlined by Lord Darzi in the NHS Next Stage Review. Now commissioners and service providers have been given detailed […]
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Demonstrators make slow progress
Around 650 people are using new assistive care technologies as part of the Whole System Demonstrator project, according to the Department of Health. The WSD project was launched last May and hopes to recruit 6,000 users to test telehealth and telecare solutions in Newham, Cornwall and Kent. The project is due to run for a […]
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Making a Detailed Care Record a reality
Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care Detailed Care Record has been delivered.
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Data watchdog urged to examine legality of NHS database
A GP who is campaigning against the NHS Care Records Services is calling on the watchdog for NHS data to examine the legality of the government’s proposals for the NHS database. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, has written a 15 page report for the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care […]
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Fast followers to lead SCR roll out
Seventeen primary care trusts are due to begin implementing the Summary Care Record before 1 April as part of a ‘fast follower’ group that will lead the national roll-out of the SCR.
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Here is the news: for 2009
The NHS will not be immune from the impact of the credit crunch and this will force policy makers and trusts to make some hard decisions about healthcare IT, according to experts interviewed by E-Health Insider. Almost all the politicians, analysts, suppliers and managers asked to look ahead to 2009 argued that the health service […]
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This is the year to come
That was the year in primary care IT
Here was the news for 2008
The past 12 months in primary care IT have seen the implementation of a scheme to secure GP IT system choice, increasing numbers of GP records transferred electronically and a new consent model introduced for the NHS Summary Care Record. Less successfully, 2008 also saw the disappearance of one local service provider, the government seemingly […]
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Journalists warned of possible ECS breach
Seven BBC journalists have been told that information held on their Emergency Care Summary in Scotland may have been inappropriately accessed by a doctor. NHS Fife wrote to the seven after discovering that a doctor working for it may have accessed the records. The health board notified Fife Police and the clinician involved has now […]
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