Confidentiality

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14 July 2006

Clinicians warn CRS will damage confidentiality

Concerns about the negative impact that the planned national database of patient records, the NHS Care Record Service national record, will
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3 July 2006

Sealed envelope safety risk raised by BMA

Doctors have raised concerns that Connecting for Health proposals to allow patients to hide some information in sealed envelopes puts
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28 June 2006

Poor security in NHS portable data storage, says survey

A survey into the use of portable storage devices by NHS professionals and suppliers has revealed that half of those
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27 June 2006

CfH still sidelining doctors, BMA chair claims

The chairman of the British Medical Association has told his members that “another year has been wasted” in efforts to
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21 June 2006

City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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20 June 2006

GPs and their families urged to boycott NHS ‘spine’

GP representatives are advising GPs and their families to consider withdrawing themselves from the NHS spine “as an example to
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16 June 2006

Taskforce announced to speed up NCRS

The Department of Health is setting up a taskforce to speed up implementation of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS)
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15 June 2006

Too many problems with C+B, says Meldrum

Too many delays and problems have undermined the Choose and Book scheme, according to the leader of the UK’s GPs.
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13 June 2006

iSoft user group pushing for review of NPfIT

A primary care IT user group has backed calls for an independent review of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT),
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12 June 2006

Scottish MPs told criticism of GPASS ‘overblown’

Criticism of the Scottish GP computer system GPASS is “overblown” and the system will serve NHS Scotland well in the
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