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22 February 2007

New post-Shipman information guidelines issued

The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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18 December 2006

Ministerial review to back summary care records

The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national
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12 December 2006

RCGP urges ‘universal and rapid’ SNOMED deployment

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has written to NHS IT director general Richard Granger calling for the "universal
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21 November 2006

Fair deal on NHS broadband

This week EHI Primary Care launches Fair Deal on NHS Broadband, a campaign to get GPs the fast broadband they
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22 August 2006

PHCSG update

Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month's BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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2 June 2006

Senior GPs say CfH response on security ‘encouraging’

The two senior GP representatives in the UK are writing to GP practices to outline “the encouraging response” they have
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7 March 2006

RCGP backs ‘opt-in’ model for national care records

The Royal College of General Practitioners has decided to back an ‘opt-in’ model for the national NHS Care Records Service
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14 February 2006

GP-to-GP record transfer roll-out slows

The second pilot site for GP2GP transfer of patient records is due to get underway next week but rollout of
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23 January 2006

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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