Scottish GPs insist on explicit consent on shared records
GP practices must remain the data controller for GP records even if databases are held within a hosted environment, Scottish GP representatives have agreed. In a special debate on information sharing and confidentiality at the Scottish Local Medical Committees’ (LMCs) conference last week GPs also insisted that Scotland’s explicit consent model should remain for […]
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GPASS accidentally prescribes Viagra to smokers
A glitch with the Scottish GP system GPASS could have resulted in smokers trying to quit the habit being mistakenly prescribed anti-impotence drug Viagra by doctors. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board said the error was due to a computer glitch at two city GP practices, according to a report by BBC Scotland. The Health […]
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Report must ‘signal the end of the line for GPASS’
A long-awaited independent report on GPASS ‘must signal the end of the line’ for Scotland’s most commonly used GP system, BMA Scotland’s IT representative said today. After seeing a draft version of the pending Deloitte report on ‘General Practice Information Technology Options’, Dr Stuart Scott, deputy chairman and IT lead for the BMA’s Scottish General […]
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GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian
NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS) in favour of INPS’s Vision system. The trusts decided to find alternative systems after becoming fed up with the problems practices were experiencing with GPASS. Critics say that GPASS has been plagued with problems since […]
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NHS Scotland aims for electronic records from 2010
Delivering for Health, the board responsible for IT in NHS Scotland, says it will act on the key recommendations of a forthcoming Deloitte report on delivering e-health in Scotland and say they will be in a position to implement integrated electronic patient records by as early as 2010. The Deloitte report was commissioned by the […]
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Delay to Scottish primary care software report
A much-anticipated report on the future of primary care IT systems in Scotland has been delayed, and will undergo further work before completion. The delay has been criticised by the British Medical Association’s Scottish General Practitioner Committee which says GP practices are keenly awaiting the findings of the report. Dr Stuart Scott, chairman of the SGPC’s IT […]
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Publicity blitz for Scotland’s Emergency Care Summary
Scotland has launched a public information campaign about the transition to electronic health records with a leaflet on its Emergency Care Summary (ECS) delivered to all 2.5 million households in the country. A further 400,000 copies of the leaflet has been distributed to GP practices, primary and secondary care services north of the border. The […]
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Scottish MPs told criticism of GPASS ‘overblown’
Criticism of the Scottish GP computer system GPASS is “overblown” and the system will serve NHS Scotland well in the future, the chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland has told Scottish MPs. Stuart Bain told the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee that there had been significant problems with GPASS which he said had been corrected […]
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Scottish LMCs vote for abolition of GPASS
GP representatives have voted for the abolition of the Scottish computer system GPASS in a move which puts growing pressure on the Scottish Executive to act over the system used by the majority of GPs in Scotland. The Scottish local medical committees’ conference passed a series of motions calling for GPASS to be abandoned, claiming […]
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Scots ahead
Fiona Barr looks at how electronic summaries of GP records are already in operation in Scotland, accessible by out of hours providers and with A&E departments soon to be added.
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