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16 November 2010

SCR patient campaign set to restart

Public Information Programmes for the Summary Care Record are to restart before Christmas following a five month suspension.
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4 November 2010

BMA tells MPs to ‘save PCT managers’

Primary care trust staff who will be needed to make GP commissioning consortia work are already leaving the NHS, MPs
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19 October 2010

Unison legal challenge rejected

Unison has lost its bid to mount a legal challenge against the white paper ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS.’
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11 October 2010

Summary Care Record given go-ahead

The Summary Care Record is to go ahead, but its content will be limited to core information and an opt-out
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6 October 2010

BMA Learning to run revalidation toolkit

BMJ Learning has announced that it is developing an online revalidation toolkit to help doctors meet the future demands of
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5 October 2010

Lansley faces opposition to white paper

Growing concerns about the government’s plans to overhaul the NHS have been presented to health secretary Andrew Lansley ahead of
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1 October 2010

BMA: more risks than pros in white paper

The BMA has criticised the government’s plans to overhaul the NHS in England, saying they contain “much that would be
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22 September 2010

BMA Scotland demands portal security

The BMA in Scotland is calling for tighter controls on access to shared record information as the Scottish Parliament prepares
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10 August 2010

Eleven QoF indicators up for retirement

Eleven indicators are likely to be retired from the Quality and Outcomes Framework next year if recommendations from the National
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19 July 2010

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
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