Scottish ECS study ‘will show benefits’
The lead author of a critical incident study of the Emergency Care Record in Scotland has said that it shows that the record improves patient care by enabling safer decision making. Libby Morris said the study surveyed three acute receiving units and found that clinical decisions can be more timely, accurate and patient centered when using the ECS. […]
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ICO issues guidance on SCR opt-outs
GPs must inform their patients before carrying out a blanket opt-out of all their patients from the Summary Care Record, the Information Commissioner’s Office has said. The ICO said that opting out all of a practice’s patients without first informing them could be considered as “unfair processing”. Earlier this week a former chair of the […]
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Fourth OOH centre gets access to SCR
North Staffs Urgent Care has become the fourth out-of-hours centre in England to give its clinicians access to the Summary Care Record.
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Cundy advises mass SCR opt-out
A former chair of the BMA’s GP IT committee is advising GPs to automatically opt-out all patients from the Summary Care Record.
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BMA says suspend access to SCRs
The BMA GP committee has learned that some Summary Care Records have not been updated, and is calling on the government to suspend access until the problems are resolved.
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BMA calls for halt to SCR uploads
BMA GP representatives are calling on the government to halt the uploading of any more Summary Care Records while a review of the programme takes place.
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Almost £100m spent on fast-growing SCR
Almost £100m has been spent on the Summary Care Record programme to date, and new figures have shown that 200,000 SCRs were created in just seven days in June, when it was supposedly under review.
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ARM doesn’t call for end of NPfIT or SCR
Doctors’ representatives have stopped short of backing calls for the withdrawal of co-operation from the Summary Care Record programme. They have also refused to seek cancellation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. GPs and hospital doctors at the BMA’s annual representative meeting did, however, endorse the BMA’s policy that patients should be […]
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20,000 SCRs viewed via Adastra system
More than 20,000 Summary Care Records have been viewed out-of-hours via the integrated solution provided by software supplier Adastra.
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GPs confident their data is fit to share
Four out of five GPs believe the quality of their practice data is fit for sharing, according to a survey on the future of general practice IT.
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