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12 August 2009

One in three don’t collect anti-virals

More than one in three people have failed to collect their anti-viral medicine after being issued with an authorisation number
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23 June 2009

GP bodies clash on SCR

The Royal College of General Practitioners has publicly backed the Summary Care Record following criticism of its consent model by
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20 May 2009

QResearch pioneer honoured

A GP who set up the QResearch database, using anonymised data from around 10m patients registered at EMIS practices, has
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21 April 2009

What is in store for QoF?

The GP in charge of recommending changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework tells Sarah Bruce what is on the
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17 April 2009

New logo identifies safe online pharmacy

One in four GPs have treated patients for adverse reactions to medicines bought online, according to a survey. The poll
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2 April 2009

GPs to be revalidated online

All GPs will be expected to complete an electronic portfolio for revalidation from April 2010, according to the Royal College
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2 June 2008

Consultation begins on national GP data extraction

The Information Centre has announced it is beginning consultations with stakeholders for a new data extraction system that will record
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2 November 2007

GP2GP transfer software installed in 2000 practices

Connecting for Health has announced that it has rolled out GP2GP record transfer software to its two thousandth practice and
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22 February 2007

New post-Shipman information guidelines issued

The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in
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18 December 2006

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
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