This week’s edition of Pulse, the GP’s magazine, is edited by Dr Dr Gillian Braunold, clinical director for the NHS Summary Care Record Programme. The issue includes an Opinion piece by Dr David Lloyd, medical director of out-of-hours IT at NHS Connecting for Health, discussing how an accurate, reliable record of patients’ medication might improve [...]
Joe Fay writes in The Register: The Labour government spent just under £300m to develop the ID card and biometric passport schemes unceremoniously dumped by the ToryDems this month. The figures came in a commons answer on Monday. Conservative MP Richard Harrington asked “what recent representations she has received on the cost of the identity [...]
Ian Quinn writes in Pulse, the GP magazine, under an “exclusive” tag: The Government is planning to switch to a scaled back, ‘patient-held’ electronic care record, severing central control over the controversial programme, but stopping short of scrapping it altogether. A senior Government source told Pulse of moves to substantially reform the Summary Care Record [...]
Phil Muncaster writes on the V3 web site: The coalition government has decided not to shelve the controversial ContactPoint database immediately, saying instead that its operations will be scaled down gradually. ContactPoint was designed to improve child protection by increasing the amount of information shared between government departments. It holds information on all children under [...]
According to Public Servant magazine: A Freedom of Information request by a member of the public known as HMP Britain has revealed that a national police database holds records of 7.6 billion occasions on which the locations of vehicles have been automatically logged. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), which runs the National ANPR Data [...]
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