Summary Care Record

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13 April 2007

Lessons already being learned from early adopters

Dr Gillian Braunold explains how pragmatism and common sense are the touchstone of the summary care record early adopters, which
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11 April 2007

Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more

England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing
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2 April 2007

Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England

The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP
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2 April 2007

SCR opt-out sets ‘onerous’ conditions, says GP

Patients who want to opt-out from having a Summary Care Record will have to apply for exemption under section 10
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26 March 2007

Consider ethical issues of care record, MDU advises

GPs need to consider going beyond implied consent before allowing patient information to be uploaded to the spine, according to
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15 March 2007

Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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13 March 2007

Privacy GP calls records opt out pledge a ‘decoy’

A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming
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27 February 2007

Summary care records planned for end of 2008

Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end
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22 February 2007

Patients key to NPfIT fate

In the first of a two-part interview, BMA chairman, James Johnson, tells Joe Fernandez why patients will decide ultimately the
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20 February 2007

Read code will trigger care record opt-out

The Read code 93C3 will be used as one way of identifying patients who do not wish to have a
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