Doctors ethics committee undecided on NCRS consent
The British Medical Association’s ethics committee has decided not to back any consent model for the NHS Care Records Service at the moment although the majority of its members support an opt-in system. The committee, which met last week, looked at various models for how consent for access to the summary care record on the […]
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GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’
The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up onto the NHS summary care record if patients have opted in to have their details shared. The agreed recommendation states "That the GPC insists that clinical data should not be uploaded to the Summary care […]
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Revised NCRS proposals allow for multiple summaries
The concept of a single summary record on the spine is to be replaced by a system that will allow several separate summaries to co-exist, according to revamped proposals on the content of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS). Patients will also be able to opt out of having a summary care record of any […]
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