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SCR consent model changes
The NHS Care Records Board will today confirm that patients will be asked for permission to share their record at each clinical encounter. In a much-anticipated move, the board has acted on the recommendations of the May 2008 UCL report on the first primary care trusts to adopt the Summary Care Record. Patients will still […]
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Choose and Book fails to offer choice
Choose and Book failed to deliver its promise of choice of hospital, time and date of apppintment , a newly-published study shows.
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FOI appeal on summary records legal status
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the Summary Care Record has taken his battle to the Information Commissioner’s Office. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Warwickshire, has lodged a Freedom of Information Act appeal with the Information Commissioner after the Department of Health refused to release its legal advice on the legal status […]
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Urgent review of SCR consent model recommended
The independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record has recommended an urgent review of its implied consent model and questioned whether a national system should be rejected in favour of a series of linked smaller systems.
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Evaluation to recommend cautious SCR roll-out
The pace of implementation of the Summary Care Record (SCR) looks likely to be slower than originally planned after it has emerged that only two PCTs have so far got records available to view over the Spine. The first evaluation of the SCR, due to be published next month, is also expected to recommend a […]
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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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GP questions Hewitt on ‘vanishing’ C+B services
A GP has questioned health secretary Patricia Hewitt about the use of Choose and Book for demand management as a forthcoming survey highlights growing disquiet among doctors about “vanishing services” on the e-booking system. Dr Andrew Gray, a GP at the Village Medical Centre in Great Denham, Bedford, used last week’s webchat with Patricia Hewitt […]
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Over 5,000 GP practices now ready for QMAS
The Department of Health have announced that over 5,000 out of the 9,000 GP practices in England are now able to use the Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS), the web-based feedback system that automatically uploads practice activity data for GPs to be paid and monitored under the new General Medical Services contract. QMAS was […]
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Talking heads help hearing-impaired take phonecalls
New software being developed may give the deaf and hard-of-hearing a new way of receiving phonecalls – using a computer generated face that users can lip-read. The SYNFACE software connects to regular computer microphone and soundcard hardware, which in turn is connected to the telephone line. The software can make and receive calls in the […]
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