Lessons already being learned from early adopters
Dr Gillian Braunold explains how pragmatism and common sense are the touchstone of the summary care record early adopters, which are already shaping policy for future roll-out.
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Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more
England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing systems could potentially have delivered results faster and cheaper, according to the Department of Health’s national director for patients and the public, Harry Cayton. The patients’ ‘tsar’ who is also chair of the Care Record […]
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Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England
The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP summary care record system launched in December. The GP out-of-hours system in Gwent was implemented by Graphnet Health working together with Adastra software. The project which took six months cost just £200,000. The Graphnet developed summary care […]
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SCR opt-out sets ‘onerous’ conditions, says GP
Patients who want to opt-out from having a Summary Care Record will have to apply for exemption under section 10 of the Data Protection Act, on the grounds that it will cause them ‘substantial damage or distress’, according to new GP guidance. Dr Paul Cundy, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee Information Technology subcommittee, told […]
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Consider ethical issues of care record, MDU advises
GPs need to consider going beyond implied consent before allowing patient information to be uploaded to the spine, according to a medical defence body. The Medical Defence Union has issued new guidance on the Summary Care Record which highlights GPs’ ethical duties. It points out that guidance to GPs from the Department of Health only […]
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out
The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at two GP practices in Bolton, in the north-west of England. Approximately 14,500 patients will have a summary of the GP record, containing details of name, address, medication history, serious illnesses and allergies, uploaded to a […]
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Privacy GP calls records opt out pledge a ‘decoy’
A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming that current plans will still put confidential patient information at risk. Dr Paul Thornton has written a 12 page report which claims the government’s pledge of an opt out right from the Summary Care Record […]
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Summary care records planned for end of 2008
Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end of 2008. Guidance prepared by CfH for strategic health authorities makes it clear that the Clinical Summary Record will be implemented in two phases. Phase one, due to begin by Easter, will consist of an […]
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Patients key to NPfIT fate
In the first of a two-part interview, BMA chairman, James Johnson, tells Joe Fernandez why patients will decide ultimately the National Programme for IT’s fate.
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Read code will trigger care record opt-out
The Read code 93C3 will be used as one way of identifying patients who do not wish to have a summary care record written to the NHS Spine, the Summary Care Record Advisory Group has agreed. The group, which met for the first time last week, accepted a recommendation from Connecting for Health (CfH) that […]
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