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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“A confidential draft report from the evaluation of the Summary Care Record says data uploaded from GP practices is sometimes wrong but that the SCR can be useful when the data is accurate, Computer Weekly magazine has reported.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using software from document management specialists PCTI.
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David Rose, The Times
“The new system of electronic patient records being introduced across England is unreliable and contains inaccuracies that could put lives at risk. A draft report on the Government’s plan to create health records for 50 million people reveals that the national database contains serious errors and omissions.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“NHS Waltham Forest has become the first primary care trust in London to link up its RiO electronic patient record system with Choose and Book.
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Robbie Hughes, ComputerWorldUK
‘A national level database of drugs, allergies and other health information that can be mined for information at an anonymous level is an immensely valuable tool to a government that spends more than 10% of GDP on providing healthcare and has a history of paying primary care providers to send back data on their patients.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The risk that patients would misread opt-out forms for the Summary Care Record and send them to the wrong address has led to them being excluded from patient information packs, Connecting for Health has told GPs.
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Gillian Braunold, The Guardian
“The chairman of the BMA, Dr Hamish Meldrum, declared this week that NHS consultants and GPs “have coped up until now without an electronic record of patient details”. And he is right – but at the expense of several high-profile deaths and countless near-misses and incidents of accidental harm, which accessible information could have prevented. These records include current medication, allergies and adverse reactions.
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Juliet Walker, BMJ Blogs
“People living in London and four other strategic health authorities are currently receiving information in the post about the rollout of the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR) system. SCR is part of the NHS Care Records System, a large UK government IT project which aims for more effective sharing of patient records between NHS services.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“A GP practice in Hampshire has recorded opt-out requests for the Summary Care Record from 20% of its patients.
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BBC News
“The doctors’ union claims that England’s medical records database is being pushed through too fast, with details sometimes being uploaded without patients’ knowledge.
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Kate Devlin, The Telegraph
“Those who do not wish to have their details on the £11 billion computer system are supposed to be able to opt out by informing health authorities.
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John Oates, The Register
“The British Medical Association is calling on the Department of Health to suspend the roll-out of summary care records.
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Nick Heath, Silicon
“The Department of Health has spent more than £700,000 on a project to study the impact of introducing centralised medical records — but is pushing ahead with the project before the study has even been completed.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider
“The British Medical Association is to write to health minister Mike O’Brien as the row over the roll-out of the Summary Care Record escalates.
Local medical committees have reported that their attempts to include opt-out forms in information sent to patients has been blocked.
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Fiona Barr, e-Health Insider Primary Care
“The abolition of GP practice boundaries will increase the importance of shared medical records, according to the Department of Health.
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IrishHealth
“If all hospital specialists used the same electronic health records system it would lead to huge savings for the health services, according to a consultant rheumatologist.
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Gareth Iacobucci, Pulse
“One million electronic health records have been now been transferred using GP2GP, with over 5,000 GP practices across the country now using the service, NHS Connecting for Health has announced.
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Lyn Whitfield, e-Health Insider
“The BMA has criticised the roll-out of the Summary Care Record programme, claiming patients do not have enough information and that it is too hard for them to opt out if they want to.
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Public Service
“A security expert has supported moves by London GPs to warn the public of the dangers of having an electronic health record.
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Richard Staines, Pulse
“London LMCs have created an online information resource for GPs to ensure they are aware of roll-out of the Summary Care Record across the capital.
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