Welsh GP administrator fined for illegally accessing patient records
A former NHS administrator, Sally Anne Day, has been fined for unlawfully accessing patient records where she was fined £200 for each offence.
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GP IT funding increased by 18 per cent
Clinical commissioning groups are getting an 18% increase in GP IT funding and must provide all practices with technology allowing remote access to patient records within this financial year, a new report has said.
Infrastructure

Salford plans to put CareInMotion
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has bought Allscripts’ CareInMotion dbMotion population health management platform, for the replacement of the Salford Integrated Record.
Interoperability

Summary Care Records: GPs add info
Nearly all of England’s GPs are able to write additional information into a patient’s Summary Care Record from within their clinical system and more than 80% of SystmOne practices have added codes already.
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Hospital flood destroys paper records
Thousands of paper patient records held at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary have been destroyed after flooding at the hospital.
Cyber Security

GP2GP allows large file transfer
Large patient record files can be sent electronically between GP practices following roll-out of the latest version of GP2GP.
Interoperability

Trust hunts disc holding 42,000 records
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust has admitted to losing a disc containing the confidential information of 42,000 patients.
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CoWs to bust bureaucracy
Junior doctors spend 66% of their time accessing or updating patient notes, and computers on wheels reduce ward round times, a report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre has found.
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West Cornwall to pilot record sharing
Eight GP practices in West Cornwall will pilot a data sharing scheme using Microtest’s Guru to allow local A&E clinicians and the local out-of-hours GP service with access to patients’ GP records.
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17 orgs tender for central care record
Seventeen health and social care organisations across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull have gone out to tender for a joint central care record system.
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