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Doctors’ disaffection with the NPfIT grows again

Half of all doctors say they will not upload medical records to the NHS Care Records Service (CRS) unless they get their patients’ explicit consent. Nearly 80% of GPs and 55% of other doctors think the CRS will weaken patient-record confidentiality

This is the surprise finding of the latest survey by independent firm Medix analysing doctors’ attitutes to the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).

 

Full story in bjhc&im December 2006 (417 words)

 

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