22 March 2010

Two-fifths of PCTs begin SCR campaigns

The summary care record roll out More than 40% of primary care trusts have started their Public Information Programmes for
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19 March 2010

SCR suffers from variable GP data

A confidential draft report from the evaluation of the Summary Care Record says data uploaded from GP practices is sometimes
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19 March 2010

PCTI delivers to GPs in Herefordshire

The discharge summary target NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using
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17 March 2010

Waltham Forest links RiO and C&B

NHS Waltham Forest has become the first primary care trust in London to link up its RiO electronic patient record
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16 March 2010

CMO wants tech change on climate change

The NHS in England should increasingly make services available remotely to slow the impact of climate change on health, the
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16 March 2010

Get consent 2 txt – MDU

GP practices are being advised to get patients’ explicit consent before communicating with them via text message. Latest advice from
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16 March 2010

Scots GPs say paper should guide portals

GPs in Scotland have demanded that a series of security measures are introduced to protect patient confidentiality when their records
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15 March 2010

SCR opt-out letters would confuse

The risk that patients would misread opt-out forms for the Summary Care Record and send them to the wrong address
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12 March 2010

Hants GP wants explicit consent for SCR

A GP practice in Hampshire has recorded opt-out requests for the Summary Care Record from 20% of its patients, having
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10 March 2010

Want to quit? There’s an app for that

The Department of Health has launched an iPhone application to help people stop smoking. The application was launched today by
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