Common assessment for adults pilot announced
The Department of Health will next month launch a call for interest in a pilot scheme for local authority-led consortia to produce IT systems to enable health and social care bodies to share information. The aim of the scheme is to develop systems for a Common Assessment Framework (CAF) for adults which would enable health […]
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Royal Free go-live with Millennium R1 CRS
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go-live with a Cerner Millennium Release 1 Care Records System. The trust went live with the new Patient Administration System, delivered by local service provider BT, over the weekend, and will be using it for accident and emergency, order communications, inpatient, maternity, […]
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FOI appeal on summary records legal status
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the Summary Care Record has taken his battle to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, has lodged a Freedom of Information Act appeal with the Information Commissioner after the Department of Health refused to release its legal advice on the legal status […]
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Caution urged on EPS release two contracts
Community pharmacists have been warned to take care when signing contracts for systems to support release two of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) as some pharmacies have been waiting more than two years for release one systems. The Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC) said it had been contacted by pharmacists who had signed up for […]
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Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS
Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led to the system suffering from ‘intermittent problems’ leading some to stop using their electronic record systems. The weekend upgrade, called Spine release 2008-A, was a major upgrade to the Spine PDS service. The PDS is […]
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Seetec withdraws from GPSoC
Seetec has announced it is to withdraw from the GP Systems of Choice programme, effective from 30 November, and quit the primary care market. The company said it made the difficult decision following a decline in demand for its primary care system, GP Enterprise. Seetec has been a supplier to the NHS primary care market […]
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GPs call for halt to centrally-held patient records
GP representatives must ensure that a halt is put to the development of centrally-held patient records, this year’s local medical committees’ conference will hear. The conference, to be held next month, is to debate a motion calling on the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee (GPC) to stop the development of centrally-held records and to promote a […]
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Reflection needed on SCR report says director
The clinical director for the Summary Care Record has called for a period of reflection in the wake of the publication of the independent evaluation of the SCR. Dr Gillian Braunold, clinical director for the SCR and HealthSpace, said that while the SCR team was keen “to try and get on with this” it was […]
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EMIS launches care integration projects
GP systems supplier EMIS has announced two new projects which will help to ensure care is fully informed and correctly delivered. Using their web-based software EMIS Web, the company is launching pilots, focused on integrating its primary care records software with other systems in two locations. In Gateshead, out-of-hours staff using Adastra systems will be […]
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Urgent review of SCR consent model recommended
The independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record has recommended an urgent review of its implied consent model and questioned whether a national system should be rejected in favour of a series of linked smaller systems.
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