EHI Primary Care Archives

16 March 2006

Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from.

8 December 2005

Lack of access to smartcards and the N3 network by community pharmacists is jeopardising the roll out of the electronic

1 November 2005

The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is

25 October 2005

A loophole in the Data Protection Act means GPs could be forced to disclose the records of deceased patients, GP

27 September 2005

The Department of Health (DH) has admitted that not a single primary care trust in England is likely to be

21 July 2005

Concerns over who will own the summary record on the spine and how the summary data will be validated are

5 April 2005

The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that

29 March 2005

A project which allows out-of-hours services access to an emergency care summary of patients’ GP records is likely to be

8 March 2005

Patients will be unable to make a single request for their records not to be held on the NHS Care

1 March 2005

Pharmacist representatives have told MPs that plans to allow GPs and other prescribers to nominate a patient’s pharmacy for electronic

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