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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Evaluating SCR options
A busy summer lies ahead as the implications of the evaluation of the Summary Care Record are considered, Fiona Barr reports.
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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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Evaluation to recommend cautious SCR roll-out
The pace of implementation of the Summary Care Record (SCR) looks likely to be slower than originally planned after it has emerged that only two PCTs have so far got records available to view over the Spine. The first evaluation of the SCR, due to be published next month, is also expected to recommend a […]
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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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GP contract to continue IT DES payments
GP practices will be able to continue to claim for work done under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES) for another 12 months, as part of the GP contract settlement for 2008/9. The agreement to extend the DES until the end of March 2009 means practices already registered to take part in the scheme will be […]
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records
The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved. The news comes despite BMA concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of extending access to an additional professional group working in the commercial sector. The newly-published white paper on community pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: […]
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NPfIT progress so far
Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the NHS National Programme for IT.
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CfH says SCR audit trails ‘clunky’
Connecting for Health has acknowledged the audit trail facility in the first Summary Care Record pilots ‘has been clunky’, after minutes from the board of Bolton PCT expressed concerns over the functionality. Problems are reported with the time required to review audit trail alerts – created by the SCR system. In official minutes, a member of Bolton PCT’s SCR board branded […]
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HealthSpace wins clinician vote
HealthSpace, the NHS’s own personal health record project, has been voted the most exciting part of the NHS national IT programme. Dr Gillian Braunold, clinical lead for the Summary Care Record (SCR) and HealthSpace, revealed the results of the vote last week. Speaking on Thursday, 13 March at a DH press conference, she said “The […]
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