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Suppliers advised to develop standalone software

Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that it is advising its suppliers to develop standalone versions of their applications, not
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Patients becoming apprehensive of NHS CRS

Patients are contacting their GPs with concerns about the confidentiality of their data held on GP computer systems as awareness
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Patients to get veto on details recorded to spine

Patients may after all be allowed to decide to withhold sensitive information from the central electronic record system, known as
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Data spine could form part of 2011 Census

Data in the 2011 census could come from patient records held on the National Programme for IT, according to a
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Data quality vital to electronic transfer of prescriptions

Keighley, the first pilot site for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), has found that before new national systems can be
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No show from iSOFT at GP2GP transfer meeting

One of the leading GP system suppliers has been criticised after dropping out of a demonstration of GP2GP record transfer
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Data migration hurdles detailed in leaked report

The complex task of transferring data from existing GP clinical systems into systems supplied under NHS Connecting for Health (CfH)
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‘Connect with GPs’ call for IT modernisers

A GP magazine has called on Connecting for Health (formerly the National Programme for IT) to connect with its readers
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Paper records only opt-out available to patients

The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that
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Systems choice was a ‘geographical absurdity’

Professor Mike Pringle, one of the clinical leads for the national programme for IT, has described the previous arrangements on
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