Granger says NPfIT programme substantially delivered
Richard Granger, the chief executive of Connecting for Health, today said that the NHS IT project has been substantially delivered with key component programmes now nearing completion, though 90% of acute trusts have yet to get new systems. In a key development he said that live trials of the patient summary care record would begin ‘within days’, the […]
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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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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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Primary care to complete NPfIT by 2010
Primary care will have delivered most of its part of the National Programme for IT by 2010, according to Connecting for Health’s joint GP clinical lead Professor Mike Pringle. Prof Pringle told a conference organised by IT system supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) that NPfIT’s vision for primary care was on track while most of […]
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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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An independent view
Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so important.
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An independent view
Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so important.
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Scottish GPs insist on explicit consent on shared records
GP practices must remain the data controller for GP records even if databases are held within a hosted environment, Scottish GP representatives have agreed. In a special debate on information sharing and confidentiality at the Scottish Local Medical Committees’ (LMCs) conference last week GPs also insisted that Scotland’s explicit consent model should remain for […]
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Information Governance will be ongoing challenge
Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the information governance challenge for shared records and use of patient data in an electronic NHS would be an ongoing challenge for the coming decade, in the same way that getting clinical governance right had been the challenge of the previous decade. Quizzed about privacy […]
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Two-thirds of GPs against sharing their medical records
A survey of GPs by Pulse magazine has found that only a third plan to advise patients to allow their details to be shared using the NHS Summary Care Record. The survey revealed that GPs are also cautious about sharing their own records with just a third saying they will allow full sharing, while four […]
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