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6 March 2007

Exercising Choice

When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary
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27 February 2007

Summary care records planned for end of 2008

Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end
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20 February 2007

Read code will trigger care record opt-out

The Read code 93C3 will be used as one way of identifying patients who do not wish to have a
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13 February 2007

CD record transfers opposed by Hampshire PCT

A primary care trust has recommended that GP practices do not transfer patient records using a CD citing concerns over
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30 January 2007

A world of good

Some of the best ideas for e-health around the World were brought together for the Imagine Cup. Joe Fernandez reports.
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9 January 2007

Call for pay to discuss records with patients

GP representatives are calling for GP practices to be paid for the work involved in discussing records with patients before
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19 December 2006

Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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18 December 2006

Ministerial review to back summary care records

The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national
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13 December 2006

Don’t opt-out patients by default, GPs advised

GP practices concerned about the confidentiality of patient records under the NHS Care Records Service have been advised not to
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