Cayton to lead summary records taskforce
Patients’ ‘tsar’ and chair of the Care Records Development Board, Harry Cayton, will lead the taskforce set up to help get the NHS Summary Care Record underway and resolve outstanding issues over its introduction, it was announced today. The taskforce membership will also include leaders from the main clinical professions and representatives from patient groups […]
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Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs
The two most senior GP representatives in England have written to Connecting for Health to demand reassurances on patient confidentiality after it emerged that non-clinical staff can access and change patient details held on the personal demographics service. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee and Dr Mayur Lakhani, chairman […]
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Choose and Book passes 50,000 mark
More than 6,000 appointments a week are now being made through Choose and Book with the total number of bookings now over 52,000, Jane Cummings, the national director for C&B, has revealed. Speaking at a conference organised by the Health Service Journal, Ms Cummings said this was a marked improvement on July when just 100 […]
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Every PCT to miss Choose and Book target
The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be in a position to meet its next Choose and Book target and is relying on paper solutions to deliver its flagship policy on choice at referral. Just over 6,000 bookings have been made through Choose […]
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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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One millionth baby issued NHS Number
One million newborn babies have now been issued with NHS number that will stay with them from birth for life, under the NHS Numbers for Babies (NN4B) Programme. The millionth NHS number was issued to a baby on Sunday 6 June 2004, eighteen months after the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) launched the NN4B service. The NHS number […]
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Prepare for mandatory use of NHS Number, trusts told
Trusts in England have been told to start as soon as possible to move towards using the NHS Number as the unique identifier of patients within the NHS IT system. Though not compelled to use the NHS Number currently, trusts will be required to use it as the NHS Care Record is implemented from June […]
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