Baby steps
E-Health Insider Primary Care reports on two pilot initiatives in sharing of children’s details between local authority and health service professionals.
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Paper records only opt-out available to patients
The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that patients who do so will not be able to have any computerised records at all, according to the GP who was at the heart of national publicity about the issue last week. Dr Paul Thornton, […]
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CRDB conference stokes debate on patient awareness
E-Health Insider reports on the Care Records Development Board’s first conference, in London, which aimed to address the tough questions on patient confidentiality and public knowledge of electronic health records. “I think we have a job on our hands," observed the chair of the National Programme for IT’s Care Records Development Board (CRDB), surveying […]
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Mencap chief exec joins care record board
Jo Williams, chief executive of Mencap, the UK’s leading learning disability charity, has joined the National Programme for IT’s Care Record Development Board (CRDB) as its social care deputy chair. Williams (right) said she was very pleased to be appointed and to be working with CRDB chair, Harry Cayton, for whom she said she had the […]
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Children’s e-health strategy focuses on shared records
An information strategy published as part of the new Children’s and Maternity Services National Service Framework focuses on how health information about children held on the NHS Care Records Service could be shared with social care and education bodies, and what role the National Programme for IT, NHS trusts and local service providers have to play. The […]
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BMA asks for clarity on care record issues
Doctors at the British Medical Association’s Annual Representative Meeting at Llandudno have demanded that the NHS Care Records System should not be fully implemented until issues over accuracy, consent and data protection are ironed out. The motion, proposed by Dr Mary Hawking from the South Bedfordshire Division, asked that “before total dependence on joint electronic patient […]
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Croydon PCT merges database with social services
A south London PCT has pooled its patient database with the council social services system in order to improve patient aftercare and data quality. Croydon PCT and Croydon Social Services are using MultiVue, by VisionWare, to synchronise the two record systems. The software allows both health and social care professionals to access the integrated records […]
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NPfIT failing to engage with social care providers
Social services directors have written to NHS chief executive, Sir Nigel Crisp, pointing out that there is no structure for engaging social care services in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The letter said that social care input had been sought only on an ad hoc basis. David Johnstone, Director of Social Services for Devon, […]
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