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7 March 2013

GPSoC to mandate online patient access

The IT necessary to provide patients with online access to their GP records needs to be mandated via the GP
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22 October 2012

National discharge summary developed

A mental health discharge summary has been developed to standardise information GPs get when a patient is discharged from inpatient
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4 October 2012

RCGP tests Social Media Highway Code

The Royal College of General Practitioners will road testing a Social Media Highway Code on the information superhighway tomorrow.
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3 February 2012

RCGP comes out against Bill

The Royal College of General Practitioners has become the latest royal medical college to urge the government to withdraw its
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9 May 2011

RCGP fuels health bill concerns

The Royal College of GPs has sought an assurance from the Prime Minister that the Health and Social Care Bill
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6 April 2011

Field to lead reform review panel

The government is to launch a "future forum" to advise on changes to its NHS reforms that will be lead
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6 April 2011

GPs must hold records against litigation

GP practices must hold on to their audit trails and the patient records associated with them indefinitely, according to fresh
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6 April 2011

GP record guidance overhauled

A major overhaul of the good practice guidelines for GP electronic records has been published, with a focus on record
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31 March 2011

All patients to be offered SCR by 2013

The Department of Health wants every patient in England to have been offered the opportunity to have a Summary Care
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22 February 2011

DH promises Read codes for SCR

NHS Connecting for Health has issued fresh guidance on the Summary Care Record, setting out how practices can implement changes
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