2007 in review
As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the news in 2007.
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Bradford named as fifth early adopter for SCR
Four GP practices in Bradford and Airedale PCT are to become the fifth early adopter site for the Summary Care Record. Letters will be sent to more than 40,000 patients registered with the practices next week, explaining how the SCR works and giving them 16 weeks to opt out of the scheme. The PCT says […]
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NHS Direct on a mission to explain
Matt Tee has been CEO of NHS Direct for the past four months, he told us of his plans for the organisation.
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Government rejects consent call for SUS use
The government has rejected calls from the Commons Health Select Committee to apply consent to the use of Secondary Uses Service data for research purposes, including information in ‘sealed envelopes’. In its official response to the committee’s report on the Electronic Patient Record the government says that the design of the Secondary Uses Services (SUS) […]
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Pharmacists may sanction SCR access
Soon patients may be able to sign up for online access to their Summary Care Record from community pharmacy premises. The Pan-Pharmacy NHS IT group, a body set up to ensure engagement between pharmacists and relevant Connecting for Health programmes, heard at its first meeting this month that patients might be able to register for […]
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New information governance board announced
Members of the new National Information Governance Board for health and social care in England, the body who will be responsible for ownership of the Care Record Guarantee have been named by the Department of Health Chair of Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board (CRDB), Harry Cayton will continue as the new chair of […]
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HealthSpace opening up to ‘advanced’ users
Registration has started for ‘advanced accounts’ offering patients the opportunity to view their Summary Care Records on HealthSpace, the NHS online personal health register. The service has opened up in tandem with the launch of the first Summary Care Records (SCRs). Nearly 50,000 of the summaries drawn from GP records in participating practices in Bolton […]
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EMIS to roll out patient access to records
EMIS is set to roll out patient access to records across all of its practices. The primary care IT supplier, which provides GP systems to nearly 60% of the UK market, has been testing patient record access for more than a year in a handful of practices. In May the company announced it was looking […]
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New clinical director for Summary Care Record
Ending confusion about the content and purpose of the Summary Care Record is the number one priority for the project’s newly appointed clinical director Dr Gillian Braunold. Dr Braunold, who is shortly to give up her role as co-GP clinical lead for Connecting for Health, has been appointed as clinical director for the SCR and […]
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Confusion surrounds Summary Care Record
Indecision about the Summary Care Record has led to confusion about its content and purpose, according to a report from MPs. The Health Committee has heavily criticised both the Department of Health and Connecting for Health for confusion about what will be included in the SCR and what the record will be used for. In their enquiry […]
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