Scotland

Archive
1 May 2007

Scottish GPs insist on explicit consent on shared records

  GP practices must remain the data controller for GP records even if databases are held within a hosted environment,
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25 April 2007

GPs call for halt to cervical cytology screening roll-out

Scottish GPs are calling for the roll-out of a national cervical cytology screening system to be halted because of concerns
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19 April 2007

St Mary’s deploys new colposcopy CIS

St Mary’s NHS Trust London, has deployed a new Colposcopy Clinical Information System from AxSys Technology into its gynaecology department.
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2 April 2007

GP records play key role in most popular paper

A database of anonymised GP records was the source for the most popular research paper of 2005 published by the
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27 March 2007

Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract

System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man.
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19 March 2007

NHS 24 faces legal action over patient deaths

NHS 24, the Scottish health helpline service, is being sued for £750,000 damages by the partner of a man who
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15 March 2007

Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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7 March 2007

ExtraMed secure £500,000 investment

Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market.
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27 February 2007

Scottish GPs to start issuing barcoded scrips

Scotland’s electronic transmission of prescriptions project is to get underway in April when GP practices will begin to produce barcoded
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6 February 2007

Security concerns hit Scottish cervical cytology system

The roll-out of a national cervical cytology screening system for Scotland could be delayed after GPs discovered that practice staff
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