Alisdair Stirling writes in Pulse, a magazine for GPs: A major investigation into the roll-out of the Summary Care Record published today has concluded the use of electronic records is low and the benefits have been exaggerated. The long-awaited report found records did not reduce consultation times or increase patient safety and were rarely accessed [...]
According to the Independent’s leader: The vetting and barring scheme represented the worst instincts of Labour in office: the assumption of guilt, the love of bureaucracy, the obsession with databases, the reflexive statism. The previous government did scale back the scheme last year. But the new Home Secretary, Theresa May, is right to go a [...]
Christopher Hope writes in the Daily Telegraph: Plans for a database of adults who want to work with children have been halted following a wave of criticism. Ministers feared the Vetting and Barring scheme, designed to protect children from paedophiles and which was due to be introduced in England and Wales next month, would drive [...]
Anita Wilkinson reports on the BMA web site from the BMA local medical committees conference: GPs voted narrowly against abandoning SCRs (summary care records) at Friday’s BMA local medical committees conference. Their decision followed news of a government letter to the BMA saying that the current processes for SCRs should be reviewed. Speaking to ‘BMA [...]
David Barrett writes in the Sunday Telegraph: Since 2007, first-time applicants for passports have been required to attend face-to-face interviews with officials from the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) in an attempt to spot fraudsters. Out of half a million people interviewed so far, just eight have been refused passports on the basis of the [...]
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