Summary Care Record

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12 June 2009

GPs urged to be ā€˜constantly alertā€™ on privacy

GPs have been advised to be “constantly alert” to potential threats to patient confidentiality and privacy as their representatives back
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9 June 2009

EMIS loads first SCRs

IT computer supplier EMIS has uploaded its first Summary Care Records to the Spine, as all six early adopter primary
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4 June 2009

Mind that child

Dr David Low, consultant paediatrician and national clinical lead for paediatrics and child health at NHS Connecting for Health, discusses
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29 May 2009

Legal advice on SCR and Spine

GPs have been given medico-legal advice about the implications of using the Summary Care Record and uploading information to the
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28 May 2009

Consent back on LMCs’ agenda

Grassroots GPs are to return to the debate for an opt-in approach to the transfer of patient identifiable data and
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26 May 2009

On the record

NHS Bolton was the first PCT to adopt the SCR. Fiona Barr asks how it is doing.
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26 May 2009

Patients will be able to delete their SCR

Patients will be allowed to request that their Summary Care Record is deleted after its creation, the Department of Health
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26 May 2009

Summary Care Record use jumps in Bolton

Use of the Summary Care Record by the out-of-hours service in Bolton has risen from 200 accesses a month to
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5 May 2009

Bury using SCR for end of life care

The Summary Care Record will start to hold information on end of life plans in the next few months, according
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28 April 2009

ACS announces big increase in Adastra profits

The company that bought out-of-hours software provider Adastra last summer has announced a 142% increase in profits and plans to
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