Care.data stuck in the last chance saloon
Critics of care.data say it is sitting in the “last chance saloon”. Sam Sachdeva looks at its prospects in the second of EHI News’ features looking back over the major healthcare IT initiatives of the coalition government.
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CQC under fire over monitoring data
The Care Quality Commission has been criticised after incorrectly placing 60 GP practices in high-risk categories due to “severely flawed” monitoring data.
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CCIOs ‘ideally placed’ to navigate IG
Chief clinical information officers are ideally placed to navigate tensions between patient safety and information governance when it comes to data sharing, the chair of the Royal College of General Practitioner has suggested.
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Another view: of appraisal and software
Many of Neil Paul’s GP colleagues have been upset by the news that two appraisal toolkits are merging. He’s worried this is just part of a trend away from proper software commissioning.
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Game on for patient online
There hasn’t been much news about new, online services for patients recently. But Dr Peter Short from the HSCIC tells EHI news editor Rebecca Todd that a lot of background work has been going on.
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Crisis of confidence in care.data – RCGP
The Royal College of General Practitioners has called on NHS England to provide urgent reassurance about the safeguards surrounding its new data-sharing programme, saying it is suffering a “crisis of public confidence”.
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Vision for a 2022 GP
Patients of the future will expect to use social media and virtual clinics to interact with their GPs, the Royal College of General Practitioners says.
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GPs can ride the social media highway
A practical guide to help UK doctors navigate the ethical and confidentiality dilemmas posed by social media has been published by the Royal College of General Practitioners.
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GPSoC to mandate online patient access
The IT necessary to provide patients with online access to their GP records needs to be mandated via the GP Systems of Choice contract, a new report states.
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National discharge summary developed
A mental health discharge summary has been developed to standardise information GPs get when a patient is discharged from inpatient mental health care.
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