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12 July 2010

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
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7 July 2010

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
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1 July 2010

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
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21 June 2010

NHS ordered to halve management costs

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at
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17 June 2010

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
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15 June 2010

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
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15 June 2010

LMCs want IT performance standards

GPs have called upon the BMA’s GP Committee to negotiate minimum performance standards for IT systems, arguing that these would
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10 June 2010

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
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18 May 2010

GP labels SCR up-load a ‘disaster’

A GP whose practice has just uploaded Summary Care Records has heavily criticised the process, which she claims has been
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5 May 2010

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
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