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22 August 2007

Patients need assurance on online health records

Patients need to be convinced that electronic personal health records (ePHRs) are safe and will benefit them, a group of
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19 June 2007

DH explains summary and detailed records

Guidance on how the two elements of the NHS electronic patient record – the detailed and summary records – will
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11 June 2007

Bury PCT becomes second site for summary care records

More than 20 GP practices from Bury Primary Care Trust (PCT) have become the second early adopter site for the
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22 May 2007

Careful and cautious progress on Electronic Prescriptions

Tim Donohoe, the head of the NHS Electronic Prescriptions Service programme, tells Fiona Barr why progress will remain 'careful and
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14 May 2007

EMIS seeks 100 pilot practices for patient record access

A patient record access group is looking for 100 EMIS practices to take part in a pioneering project allowing patients
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13 April 2007

Lessons already being learned from early adopters

Dr Gillian Braunold explains how pragmatism and common sense are the touchstone of the summary care record early adopters, which
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22 March 2007

Framework sets out plan for joined up IT

The government has set out a radical plan for joining up health and social care IT systems and sharing information
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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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22 February 2007

Patients key to NPfIT fate

In the first of a two-part interview, BMA chairman, James Johnson, tells Joe Fernandez why patients will decide ultimately the
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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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