Confidentiality

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17 December 2008

Pharmacists get access to PDS for EPS R2

Community pharmacists are to be issued with new smartcards to give them access to the Personal Demographics Service. NHS Connecting
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15 December 2008

SCR integrated into Adastra

Out-of-hours provider Adastra has delivered an integrated solution for the Summary Care Record that will make access to the SCR
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9 December 2008

Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi

NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11,
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25 November 2008

Patients divided on pharmacy records

Patient opinion is divided over whether pharmacists should have access to electronic records, with more than a quarter opposing such a
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18 November 2008

BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: live on the night

Almost 400 people gathered at the Millennium Mayfair hotel for the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008. Lyn Whitfield was among
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17 November 2008

Cayton stakes claim to independence of NIGB

The new chair of the National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care has criticised plans to make it
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12 November 2008

Catto podcast urges debate on confidentiality

Sir Graeme Catto has recorded a podcast urging doctors to put forward their views on confidentiality, including concerns about electronic
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6 October 2008

GP seeks urgent response on SCR legality

A GP who is seeking publication of the Department of Health’s legal advice on plans for the Summary Care Record
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18 September 2008

NHSmail migration to Exchange deferred

NHS Connecting for Health has written to strategic health authorities to tell them that NHSmail’s planned migration to the Microsoft
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17 September 2008

SUS public consultation launched

NHS Connecting for Health has launched a public consultation on the wider use of patient information held in the Secondary
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