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Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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GP2GP goes live

A working version of the long-awaited GP2GP transfer system was demonstrated at the BCS's Primary Health Care Specialist Group Conference
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Health professionals urged to share child information

Health professionals should lower the threshold at which they seek information from other agencies over concerns about children and young
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Information Commissioner will look at opt-out rights

  Clarification on patients’ rights to opt out of having personal information recorded under the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) will
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Child health and social care data ‘must fit together’

The proposed national child index that will be used to record and share information about the statutory services being used
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National record content outlined by CfH

Information on mental health, sexual health and infections should be excluded from the initial summary record on the spine, Connecting
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Conference call

Were GPs right to vote against electronically sharing patient information at this month's BMA local medical committees' conference?
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New professional standards for team records

Regulators of health professionals have signed up to new standards for keeping records of team-based care in all formats, including
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Baby steps

E-Health Insider Primary Care reports on two pilot initiatives in sharing of children's details between local authority and health service
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Patients becoming apprehensive of NHS CRS

Patients are contacting their GPs with concerns about the confidentiality of their data held on GP computer systems as awareness
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