Professor Conor Gearty and Tom Brake MP are trading Comment Is Free articles over the meaning of the Liberal Democrats’ actions on ID cards and DNA retention. On 9th July Prof Gearty wrote that their actions makes them Libertarians:
How real is the Liberal Democrats’ dedication to civil liberties? This may seem an odd question, given [...]
Adam White writes in the American news magazine “Time” about the government’s announcement that the 2011 census will be the UK’s last:
Census-taking is an imperfect art at the best of times. The U.K.’s 1991 census is widely regarded as so inaccurate that statisticians ignore it completely, and the 2001 census took flak for undercounting. The [...]
An article by Fiona Barr in e-Health Insider reveals some details of why at least 8,000 Summary Care Records in Birmingham hold stale data:
In a letter to Birmingham GPs about the discovery of out of date SCRs, LMC secretary Dr Charles Zuckerman said South Birmingham PCT IT staff were taking “urgent measures to remedy [...]
Susie Sell writes in Healthcare Republic:
The use of existing Summary Care Records (SCRs) should be suspended in light of emerging patient safety issues, the GPC [British Medial Association General Practitioners' Committee] has said.
GPC chairman Dr Laurence Buckman said the SCRs used in the pilot sites did not ‘update in a way you might expect’ meaning [...]
According to Pulse, a specialist magazine for GPs:
Up to 200,000 patients have been put at risk by a systematic failure to update medical data in the Government’s national Summary Care Record programme, reveals shocking new evidence supplied to Pulse by GP leaders.
In South Birmingham, where electronic records have been uploaded since an early adopter trial [...]
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