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9 April 2015

Care.data stuck in the last chance saloon

Critics of care.data say it is sitting in the “last chance saloon”. Sam Sachdeva looks at its prospects in the
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10 December 2014

CQC under fire over monitoring data

The Care Quality Commission has been criticised after incorrectly placing 60 GP practices in high-risk categories due to “severely flawed”
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4 November 2014

CCIOs ‘ideally placed’ to navigate IG

Chief clinical information officers are ideally placed to navigate tensions between patient safety and information governance when it comes to
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25 June 2014

Another view: of appraisal and software

Many of Neil Paul’s GP colleagues have been upset by the news that two appraisal toolkits are merging. He’s worried
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3 April 2014

Game on for patient online

There hasn’t been much news about new, online services for patients recently. But Dr Peter Short from the HSCIC tells
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12 February 2014

Crisis of confidence in care.data – RCGP

The Royal College of General Practitioners has called on NHS England to provide urgent reassurance about the safeguards surrounding its
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21 June 2013

Vision for a 2022 GP

Patients of the future will expect to use social media and virtual clinics to interact with their GPs, the Royal
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19 March 2013

GPs can ride the social media highway

A practical guide to help UK doctors navigate the ethical and confidentiality dilemmas posed by social media has been published
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7 March 2013

GPSoC to mandate online patient access

The IT necessary to provide patients with online access to their GP records needs to be mandated via the GP
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22 October 2012

National discharge summary developed

A mental health discharge summary has been developed to standardise information GPs get when a patient is discharged from inpatient
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