Daily Archives: December 9, 2010


Fiona Barr writes in EHI Primary Care: GPs in London have been told to do nothing about the Summary Care Record until they get the go-ahead from the BMA’s GP committee. Londonwide Local Medical Committees has told GPs that it believes patient opt-in is the only acceptable way forward. it has also told them that the BMA’s General Practitioner Committee is continuing to discuss an opt-in with NHS Connecting for Health. In October, the Department of Health published the results of its two reviews of the SCR that recommended that its content should be limited to core information and that an opt-out form should be included in patient information packs. Health minister Simon Burns said he hoped the reviews would “draw a line under the controversies that the SCR has generated.” However, it would seem that GPs remain concerned by the implied consent model, and that this could yet prove […]

London GPs told to hold fire on SCR