Setting records straight
Peter Short, national clinical lead GP, NHS Connecting for Health, discusses the recent Shared Record Professional Guidance.
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Personal view: Mary Hawking
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Practice managers embrace SCR
A survey into practice managers’ attitudes towards healthcare IT systems has found that they are generally in favour of IT innovations, including the NHS Summary Care Record. The survey, carried out by Management in Practice magazine, found that of 435 managers and associated GP staff who responded, 66% believed the SCR would benefit patients and […]
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HealthSpace set for big expansion
HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking, according to the Health Informatics Review. The review, published last week, outlines a much wider role for HealthSpace and says its consultation highlighted strong support for the HealthSpace initiative. In future HealthSpace will be accessed […]
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.
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Information Governance will be ongoing challenge
Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the information governance challenge for shared records and use of patient data in an electronic NHS would be an ongoing challenge for the coming decade, in the same way that getting clinical governance right had been the challenge of the previous decade. Quizzed about privacy […]
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Meet the suppliers: TPP
In the first article of a series, EHI Primary Care travels to Leeds to spend a day with TPP, the alternative primary care supplier for the North-east and Eastern cluster.
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Patients check records for errors
A practical exercise to find out how many errors patients can find in their records and how many entries they would wish to keep out of any shared record is underway at Hadfield, Derbyshire. Dr Richard Fitton, a GP who is a member of England’s Connecting for Health Care Record Development Board and a fervent […]
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Can you keep a secret?
Subtle changes in the way patient confidentiality in electronic health records is handled slipped out last week. EHI Primary Care looks at their implications.
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