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Scottish practices trial patient portal

Two GP practices in Scotland are to run a trial of an online patient portal enabling patients to access their
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A year in review

Primary care editor Fiona Barr looks over 2009.
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Babylifecheck site launched

The Department of Health has launched an interactive website offering advice and information to parents of babies as part of
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CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014

NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by
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Gap between SCR concept and reality

The gap between the concept of the NHS Summary Care Record and the reality of implementing it will continue to
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Connecting for Health to take over NHS Choices

NHS Connecting for Health is to take over responsibility for the NHS Choices portal, the government’s national patient portal for
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First patient portal launched in Estonia

A Tallinn hospital has become the first in Estonia to introduce an ePatient portal, allowing patients to view their medical
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Pharmacists may sanction SCR access

Soon patients may be able to sign up for online access to their Summary Care Record from community pharmacy premises.
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’

The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up
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