Summary Care Record

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30 January 2007

Information Commissioner backs electronic care records

The UK’s Information Commissioner has issued new guidance to members of the public on the government’s plans to develop a
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25 January 2007

Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter

Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project
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9 January 2007

Call for pay to discuss records with patients

GP representatives are calling for GP practices to be paid for the work involved in discussing records with patients before
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21 December 2006

2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health

E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in
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19 December 2006

Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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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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18 December 2006

Revised plan for ‘sealed envelopes’ published

Sealed envelopes are likely to become available from 2008/9, according to the latest briefing paper from NHS Connecting for Health
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11 December 2006

Concern over slow progress in acute sector

A board paper written for the largest NHS trust in England says that its region of the National Programme for
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4 December 2006

DH rejects patient opt-out requests

The Department of Health has rejected patients’ requests to stop their information being uploaded to the NHS data spine. On
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