GP seeks urgent response on SCR legality
A GP who is seeking publication of the Department of Health’s legal advice on plans for the Summary Care Record (SCR) has told the Information Commissioner (IC) he needs an urgent response to his request. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, lodged a Freedom of Information Act appeal with the Information Commissioner in May […]
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Data exchange needed for urgent care
Urgent and emergency care providers in England must share more data electronically if they are to improve services, the Healthcare Commission says today. Its latest report, Not Just a Matter of Time, shows that important information on patient care is often not shared between different parts of the urgent and emergency care system. It says […]
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PCT seeks to align SCR and SystmOne consent models
The last of the six primary care trusts due to take part in the early adopter programme for the NHS Summary Care Record has insisted that the data sharing model for the SCR and its main GP system supplier should be the same. South West Essex PCT is the last of the PCTs named as […]
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Trusts told to release slots to Choose and Book
NHS trusts have been criticised for failing to provide enough outpatient appointments slots on Choose and Book – and told to improve matters. Nick Chapman, national director of Choose and Book and the Department of Health’s senior responsible officer for Choose and Book, last week sent a strongly worded letter to strategic health authority chief […]
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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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Call for new urgent care phone number
The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would use real-time data to ensure patients needs are accurately recorded and paramedics have all the information, in its vision for emergency and acute care. Representative of all ambulance trusts in the UK as part of […]
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Evidence gap on telehealth needs to be filled
More work is needed to fill the evidence gap on telehealth if it is to enter the mainstream, according to a Department of Health agency. The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has issued a review of the academic literature on the use of telehealth in the management of patients with long term conditions (LTCs). The […]
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EMIS deal for London on cards
Primary care system supplier EMIS looks likely to be included as part of the local service provider solution for London. GP practices in London will have the option of INPS’s Vision 4 or EMIS, subject to the conclusion of contract negotiations. Kevin Jarrold, director of the London Programme for IT (LPfIT) and chief information officer […]
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Your data or your life?
Bill McAvoy of Quicksilva argues that developing an information integration strategies provides the foundation for joined up public services.
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