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25 May 2006

Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the
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25 May 2006

GP lead warns on political perils

Connecting for Health GP clinical lead, Dr Gillian Braunold, has challenged colleagues to keep arguments about the minutiae of IT
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23 May 2006

GP leads reject consent plan for care records

The national representative body of GPs has decided to reject Connecting for Health’s (CfH) modified plan for the summary care record
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9 May 2006

Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH

Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction
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3 May 2006

Quicksilva releases data spine access software

Public sector integration software specialists Quicksilva Software Solutions have released Spinal Tap, a package designed to allow accredited healthcare organisations access
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25 April 2006

Summary care record delayed and abridged

The content of the summary record uploaded to the spine will be cut back to include just allergy and prescription
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24 April 2006

CfH may hand money back to Treasury

While many NHS trusts are thought to be struggling to achieve financial balance, NHS Connecting for Health, the Department of
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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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1 March 2006

Second GP2GP record transfer pilot live

The second live trial of GP2GP has successfully completed the electronic transfer of a patient’s health care record from between
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23 February 2006

Doctors ethics committee undecided on NCRS consent

The British Medical Association’s ethics committee has decided not to back any consent model for the NHS Care Records Service
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