28 May 2010

GP plans nursing home access to records

A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could
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26 May 2010

Web calculator identifies statins risks

Researchers have developed a web calculator to identify patients at high-risk of adverse events from statins after a study found
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26 May 2010

EMIS Access ‘could save millions’

Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS claims the NHS could save almost £300m a year if all UK adults used online
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24 May 2010

LMC conf to call for SCR to be dropped

GP representatives are to hear calls for the Summary Care Record to be abandoned at the national local medical committees’
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21 May 2010

Thurrock Health Centre to use SCR

A walk-in centre and GP practice in Essex is to become the first NHS organisation in NHS East of England
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20 May 2010

Twitter is trending in the NHS

Only a third of primary care trusts are using social media to communicate with patients, according to a survey conducted
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19 May 2010

QRISK2 goes open source

The heart disease risk assessment tool QRisk2 has been made available as open source software by Nottingham University and healthcare
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18 May 2010

GP labels SCR up-load a ‘disaster’

A GP whose practice has just uploaded Summary Care Records has heavily criticised the process, which she claims has been
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18 May 2010

PCTs look for GP agreement to SCR

Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in
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14 May 2010

QRISK2 gets more support

The heart disease risk score QRISK2 is more accurate at identifying people in the UK at high risk of cardiovascular
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