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26 May 2009

On the record

NHS Bolton was the first PCT to adopt the SCR. Fiona Barr asks how it is doing.
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14 May 2009

Open all hours

NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider
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21 April 2009

NHS Surrey drops coaching service

A primary care trust has dropped its health coaching service from private contractor Bupa Health Dialog, as the row over
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21 April 2009

ICW works on New York e-prescriptions

German e-health firm InterComponentWare has partnered with the New York E-health Collaborative and Surescripts, the operator of the largest US
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23 March 2009

Call to scrap ‘illegal’ NHS patient database

A quarter of all government databases, including NHS Detailed Care Records Service and NHS CRS Secondary Uses Service, are illegal
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16 March 2009

Health coaches get access to patient records

A primary care trust is planning to set up a health coaching service giving Bupa health coaches access to patient
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9 March 2009

Data sharing clause 152 dropped

The government has dropped its controversial plans to make it easier to share personal data across Whitehall departments. Justice Secretary
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3 March 2009

Coroners Bill protest escalates

Eight healthcare organisations have called for medical records to be excluded from the data-sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice
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19 February 2009

BCS and ICO join Coroners protest

The British Computer Society and the Information Commissioner’s Office have joined the growing swell of concern about the data sharing
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17 February 2009

SCR access widens again

Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a
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