Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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Ministerial review to back summary care records
The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national electronic patient record database beginning with summary records. The government’s patients’ tsar Harry Cayton will today say the system, which will hold records for 50m people in England, is needed to modernise the NHS. Cayton […]
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RCGP urges ‘universal and rapid’ SNOMED deployment
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has written to NHS IT director general Richard Granger calling for the "universal and rapid" deployment of the clinical coding system SNOMED. The letter from the RCGP’s Health informatics Standing Group is understood to have been prompted by concerns about the pace of change towards SNOMED CT by […]
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Fair deal on NHS broadband
This week EHI Primary Care launches Fair Deal on NHS Broadband, a campaign to get GPs the fast broadband they need.
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PHCSG update
Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month’s BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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Senior GPs say CfH response on security ‘encouraging’
The two senior GP representatives in the UK are writing to GP practices to outline “the encouraging response” they have received from Connecting for Health (CfH) over concerns about security issues with the personal demographic service (PDS). The letter from Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GP committee and Dr Mayur Lakhani, […]
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RCGP backs ‘opt-in’ model for national care records
The Royal College of General Practitioners has decided to back an ‘opt-in’ model for the national NHS Care Records Service with the caveat that it may move to an opt out position if its concerns can be addressed. The RCGP debated the consent model for the NCRS at its monthly Council meeting following a recommendation […]
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GP-to-GP record transfer roll-out slows
The second pilot site for GP2GP transfer of patient records is due to get underway next week but rollout of the full scheme to all practices in England could take longer than expected. In Practice Systems has completed testing of its GP2GP solution with Connecting for Health and its pilot, involving eight practices on the […]
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GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’
The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up onto the NHS summary care record if patients have opted in to have their details shared. The agreed recommendation states "That the GPC insists that clinical data should not be uploaded to the Summary care […]
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GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent
A GP is calling for a judicial review of the government’s consent plans for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS). Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire with a special interest in patient privacy and confidentiality law, has prepared a nine-page document setting out why he believes the government’s proposals for the NCRS are unlawful […]
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