DH explains summary and detailed records
Guidance on how the two elements of the NHS electronic patient record – the detailed and summary records – will work in England has been released by the Department of Health. The guidance re-iterates that only the Summary Care Record (SCR) will be a national system, and that patients can opt-out from data being visible […]
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Bury PCT becomes second site for summary care records
More than 20 GP practices from Bury Primary Care Trust (PCT) have become the second early adopter site for the Summary Care Record (SCR) as Connecting for Health (CfH) prepares to upload the first SCRs to the spine over the next few weeks. A total of 23 out of 32 practices in Bury, covering 73 […]
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GP representatives to call for public enquiry on CRS
GPs representatives are to hear calls for a public inquiry into the cost of the NHS Care Records Service (CRS) at the national local medical committees’ (LMCs) conference next week. Doctors will also consider a call for Choose and Book to be suspended. A priority motion at the LMCs conference demands that a public inquiry […]
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Patients opting out of CRS away from pilot sites
A poll of over 200 GPs has found that almost 60% of them have been approached by patients wanting to opt-out of the summary care record, before the system has even been rolled out in their area. According to Pulse magazine, 59% of GPs surveyed said they had already been approached by patients requesting to […]
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Careful and cautious progress on Electronic Prescriptions
Tim Donohoe, the head of the NHS Electronic Prescriptions Service programme, tells Fiona Barr why progress will remain ‘careful and cautious’.
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Hopes for GP2GP completion by end of 2008
Connecting for Health hopes to rollout its GP2GP record transfer project to every practice in England by the end of next year, according to GP representatives. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee told local medical committees this week that the current plan is for every practice in England to be able to send and […]
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Government backs pharmacist access to EPR
The government has backed plans for pharmacists to be allowed access to electronic patient records but says the public will be consulted on consent and confidentiality issues. Caroline Flint, health minister, told MPs in a Parliamentary written reply last week that the government believed pharmacists would need access to patient records to enable them to […]
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FileVision look to launch eSAP system to UK
FileVision, a US-based office software developer has announced it is launching an off-the-shelf electronic Single Assessment Process (eSAP) package designed to meet NHS standards. The FileVision eSAP solution provides care professionals with the ability to store, view and change patient assessments online, and share information with other professionals across the NHS, social services, the independent […]
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‘Sealed envelopes’ on hold as policy debate continues
Local service providers (LSPs) are unable to deploy sealed envelope functionality because a clear specification looking at how the policy should work is not yet available, the Commons Health Select Committee heard today. Computer Science Corporation’s president of the Europe Group, Guy Hains told the committee that the LSP to the North-west and West Midlands, […]
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iSoft director says NPfIT systems ‘interchangeable’
Nick Harte, product management commercial director at iSoft (pictured right), says the systems being delivered into the five clusters of the English NHS National Programme are all “interchangeable”, thanks to Connecting for Health’s decision to adopt a Service Orientated Architecture based around the spine services. Harte, who led the development of iSoft’s Lorenzo product, said that this […]
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