22 May 2012

Buckman attacks reforms and email plans

The British Medical Association’s GP leader has launched a blistering attack on the new Health and Social Care Act, saying
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22 May 2012

Four TPP practices pilot records access

Four TPP practices are piloting a scheme to provide patients with access to their health records online; but the company’s
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21 May 2012

Patient access to GP records by 2015

Providing patients access to their online records by 2015 is one of the few specific commitments in the government’s newly
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18 May 2012

North Essex Partnership moves to PARIS

North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is investing £5m in designing and implementing a clinical information system using Civica’s PARIS
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17 May 2012

Royal Berks sticks to May go-live

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is planning to go live with Cerner Millennium this month, despite board-level concerns about the
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16 May 2012

Data issues hit Imperial cancer patients

“Data collection” issues at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust mean it may not have received hundreds of urgent cancer referrals
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15 May 2012

Maudsley launches HealthVault-based PHR

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is today launching personal online health records for its patients, using Microsoft’s HealthVault
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14 May 2012

Warning against making IG a ‘black art’

Information governance is turned into a “black art” by some people in the NHS who use it as a barrier
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14 May 2012

Record access by 2015 a ‘tall order’

The government's pledge to give all patients access to their electronic health records by October 2015 is a “tall order”
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11 May 2012

NHS Herefordshire links GPs with EDT Hub

NHS Herefordshire will connect another 76 GP practices to its electronic document transfer Hub and expands its use to include
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