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3 March 2016

Healthcare IT industry news in brief

This month’s round up includes: a new site for the NHS and SMEs on working together, a specialist e-prescribing deployment,
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2 October 2015

Pharmacists demand patient record access

Community pharmacists in the UK should have read and write access to full electronic records for their patients, says the
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30 April 2014

Pharmacists want SCR access

Access to the Summary Care Record is essential, a community pharmacist has said as NHS England considers launching a pilot
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27 January 2010

Pharmacists given tight IG deadlines

Community pharmacists in England have been given until the end of March to assess their compliance with NHS Connecting for
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7 January 2010

MHRA seeks prison for fake drug pedlars

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has confirmed that it is consulting on measures to introduce prison sentences
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7 August 2009

Pharmacists warn on personal records

Pharmacists’ representatives have claimed that use of private health record services such as Google Health and Microsoft HealthVault could risk
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17 April 2009

New logo identifies safe online pharmacy

One in four GPs have treated patients for adverse reactions to medicines bought online, according to a survey. The poll
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6 April 2009

Doctors call for Google to change ad policies

Doctors are calling on internet search engine Google to change its advertising policies to prevent links to unproven remedies appearing
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17 February 2009

SCR access widens again

Community pharmacists, end of life care teams and ambulance staff will gain access to the Summary Care Record in a
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8 July 2008

Latest BNFC interfaces with NHS dm+d

The new online edition of the latest BNF for Children – BNFC 2008 – will include a new interface to
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