Tower Hamlets goes live with e-SAP
Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has become the first London trust to implement new electronic Single Assessment Process (e-SAP) software, allowing its NHS and social services staff to share care records electronically. e-SAP is NHS Connecting for Health’s project for joint electronic health and social care assessment and care planning for individuals. In the future […]
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Child index could make youngsters anxious
The Children’s Commissioner says the government’s plans to create a national database of every child in England could create anxiety and arouse suspicion among young people, according to its latest research. The Office of the Children’s Commissioner commissioned children’s charity the NSPCC to conduct research among young people about their views on the proposed database, […]
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Scotland chooses Anite for social care integration
Public sector IT provider Anite and the Scottish Executive have signed a national contract that aims to deliver inter-agency access to health and social care information. Anite’s contract with the Scottish Executive means that in nine local authorities its social care product SWIFT will be integrated with Scotland’s eCare Multi-Agency Stores which hold health and […]
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Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH
Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction of the government’s vision of records available “wherever and whenever you need them”, it has emerged. An internal document produced by Connecting for Health reveals that although its proposed consent model would allow clinicians across […]
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Information sharing protocol to be devised
A single information sharing protocol for health and adult social care staff is to be developed by the end of the year by the Department of Health and Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board together with patients and service users. The forthcoming protocol is one of three measures announced by the Cabinet Office’s Better […]
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Fame claims online milestone in children’s services
A website set up to promote collaboration in multi-agency working, particularly around children’s services, has said that it has reached a milestone in traffic, now receiving 1,000 unique visitors per month. The Framework for Multi-Agency Environments (FAME) website www.fame-uk.org is a national project set up with support from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister […]
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Training on the go
Dr Neil Bacon, founder of Doctors.net.uk, on the benefits of online training and how a programme funded by the HPA helped GPs on his site prepare for major incidents.
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National children’s database gets go-ahead
The government has given the go-ahead for the creation of an electronic information sharing index containing information on all children aged 0 to 18 in England. The IS (information sharing) Index was launched by Beverley Hughes, children’s minister, who said that the aim was for the database to be rolled out by the end of […]
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Health professionals urged to share child information
Health professionals should lower the threshold at which they seek information from other agencies over concerns about children and young people, according to new draft government guidance. The cross government guidance, which has been published in the wake of public concerns over child protection issues and the Laming Enquiry into the death of Victoria Climbie, […]
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’
The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used by individual children must be made to fit with the national programme for IT, the government has said. The government response to a consultation on information sharing databases – also known as child indexes – carried […]
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