RCGP says good GPs have great websites
The ‘exemplary GP’ has a clear and accurate practice website and seeks patient’s consent before giving sensitive information to other healthcare professionals, according to the latest guidance on good medical practice for GPs. The Royal College of General Practitioners and the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee have updated their guidance Good Medical Practice for General Practitioners […]
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European judgement casts doubts on NHS CRS consent
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) claims a European Court of Human Rights judgement reinforces his view that the NHS database is unlawful. In a judgement published last week the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a nurse in Finland had her right to privacy breached. […]
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DH group to look at wider NHS CRS access
The Department of Health has convened a group to look at widening access to the NHS Care Records Service including representatives from patients, nurses and pharmacists, according to Prof Michael Thick, Connecting for Health’s chief clinical officer. Prof Thick told last week’s Pharmaceutical Journal that the representative group was made up of various parties with […]
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Data Sharing Review has messages for the NHS
Patients who consent to a course of treatment should be presumed to have given “implied consent” to having their data used for medical research, a review of data sharing across government has concluded. The NHS should also develop a system to allow approved researchers to identify patients who would be happy to take part in […]
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GPs concerned by TPP data sharing system
GPs have raised concerns about TPP SystmOne’s new data sharing model which Connecting for Health says is currently being reviewed before further roll-out. SystmOne release 3 will change the way data sharing works for SystmOne users as well as introducing Role Based Access Controls. The current system means clinicians make decisions about data sharing using […]
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GMC says patient confidentiality ‘is absolute’
Patient confidentiality is absolute; patients must give their consent before their data can be used, General Medical Council president, Sir Graeme Catto, said this week. Speaking at the BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group summer conference, Sir Graeme said the insistence on consent was a good thing and would foster the partnership approach with patients. […]
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Healthcare Interoperability event launched by EHI
E-Health Insider is launching a new conference and exhibition called Healthcare Interoperability on 30 October at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. The event is a response to the current wide ranging discussion about interoperability in healthcare systems – what it is, where it is needed and how it can be made to happen. What is […]
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GPs vote to halt Care Record Service development
GP representatives overwhelmingly backed a motion to call a halt to development of the NHS Care Records Service at the BMA’s annual Local Medical Committees conference on Friday. LMC representatives backed a motion expressing no confidence in the government’s ability to store electronic patient records safely. They also backed calls to support patients who wish […]
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FOI appeal on summary records legal status
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the Summary Care Record has taken his battle to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, has lodged a Freedom of Information Act appeal with the Information Commissioner after the Department of Health refused to release its legal advice on the legal status […]
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GPs call for halt to centrally-held patient records
GP representatives must ensure that a halt is put to the development of centrally-held patient records, this year’s local medical committees’ conference will hear. The conference, to be held next month, is to debate a motion calling on the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee (GPC) to stop the development of centrally-held records and to promote a […]
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