GP seeks urgent response on SCR legality
A GP who is seeking publication of the Department of Health’s legal advice on plans for the Summary Care Record (SCR) has told the Information Commissioner (IC) he needs an urgent response to his request. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, lodged a Freedom of Information Act appeal with the Information Commissioner in May […]
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Consent to view explored for detailed records
The new consent to view model for the NHS Summary Care Record in England may also be applied to the detailed care records held by NHS organisations. NHS Connecting for Health is to explore how the principle of ‘consent to view’ – announced as the new model for the SCR last week – could work […]
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Independent CIOs round table report
Download the full report for free Independent sector providers need to position themselves to actively anticipate and influence future NHS technical developments and information governance arrangements rather than wait for decisions to be made without their input, leaders agreed at a round table discussion. The round table, facilitated by E-Health Insider and sponsored by IMS […]
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SCR consent model changes
The NHS Care Records Board will today confirm that patients will be asked for permission to share their record at each clinical encounter. In a much-anticipated move, the board has acted on the recommendations of the May 2008 UCL report on the first primary care trusts to adopt the Summary Care Record. Patients will still […]
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PCT seeks to align SCR and SystmOne consent models
The last of the six primary care trusts due to take part in the early adopter programme for the NHS Summary Care Record has insisted that the data sharing model for the SCR and its main GP system supplier should be the same. South West Essex PCT is the last of the PCTs named as […]
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Different consent models for coaching services
The first primary care trust to use a telephone support service from private contractor Health Dialog has backed the use of an opt-out consent model after another PCT ran into a row about a similar service. NHS Norfolk (formerly Norfolk PCT) has been using Health Dialog’s telephone-based health coaching service since March 2006. When Wirral […]
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Individual Health Record extended to acute care
Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff at the Medical Assessment Unit of the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport have been given access to the IHR, which is drawn from GP records and contains key details about a patient’s medical history. The […]
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Switch to ‘permission to access’ on SCR
Patient information will be uploaded to the Summary Care Record with implied consent and patients will then be able to choose whether to give “permission to access” under the new consent model for the SCR. Individual GPs will also be given discretion to decide whether the initial upload of information should include only details on […]
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Implied consent set to be scrapped for SCR
The implied consent model for the Summary Care Record looks set to be scrapped in favour of a simpler model following a recommendation from CfH’s advisory group.
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