SCR uploads to continue during review
Summary Care Records will continue to be created and uploaded to the Spine while the programme is under review but no new patient information campaigns will be launched, EHI Primary Care can reveal.
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SCR evaluation finds few benefits
The final report of a three year evaluation of the Summary Care Record has found that it has yet to deliver significant benefits, despite “high cost and enormous effort.”
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Greenhalgh slams Burns SCR review
The leader of the independent Summary Care Record review has described the government’s promise to doctors to conduct another review as an “absolute disgrace.”
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GP leader names his NHS savings
Parts of NHS Direct, the Choose and Book service and the current ‘consent to view’ model of the Summary Care Record should all be reviewed to save money in the financial crisis, the BMA’s GP leader, Dr Laurence Buckman, said today. With NHS trusts under pressure to achieve efficiency savings of up to £20 billion […]
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Thurrock Health Centre to use SCR
A walk-in centre and GP practice in Essex is to become the first NHS organisation in NHS East of England to use Summary Care Records.
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DH and BMA say as you were on SCR
Primary care trusts will be allowed to create and upload Summary Care Records so long as GP practices agree, the Department of Health and the BMA have agreed.
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PCTs push on with SCR despite DH stop
NHS organisations are seeking special dispensation to push ahead with the Summary Care Record, despite the Department of Health’s agreement that uploads should stop in areas where an accelerated roll-out was planned.
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GPs told to tee up SCR information drive
GP practices have been advised to educate their patients about the Summary Care Record while the suspension of its roll-out is in place. The Department of Health announced last week that it had suspended the accelerated roll-out of the SCR following a call from the BMA to halt the upload of records. The BMA had […]
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SCR roll-out suspended
The Department of Health has suspended the roll-out of the Summary Care Record in the five strategic health authorities where accelerated implementation has been underway.
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SCR evaluation costs £1m
Health minister Mike O’Brien has revealed that University College London will be paid very nearly £1m for its evaluations of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace.
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