Gaining patient trust over pharmacy access to records With the roll out of pharmacy access to summary care records, some patients will inevitably express concerns about privacy, but the signs are that patients support this move.…
RPS to review membership following Pharmacy2U investigation The Royal Pharmaceutical Society will review the membership of any RPS members found guilty of wrongdoing or who have been the subject of a complaint.…
Pharmacy2U fined £130,000 for selling patient data The online pharmacy company Pharmacy2U has been fined £130,000 for selling details of more than 20,000 of its customers to marketing companies without their knowledge or consent.…
EMA launches initiative to improve collection of drug information through patient registries The European medicines safety watchdog is reviewing existing national and international patient registries in an attempt to improve and standardise data collection.…
Pharmacists should have read and write access rights to patient records, says RPS Giving pharmacists the ability to read and add comments to patients’ full health records would improve safety and quality of care, says the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in a position statement launched on 30 September 2015.…
Survey finds 80% of customers would allow pharmacists to access their GP record Customers using a pharmacy vaccination service are happy for the pharmacist to be allowed access to their GP records, suggests a survey of over 7,000 patients.…
2015 RPS award winners announced The winners of this year’s Royal Pharmaceutical Society Awards were revealed at the annual conference in Birmingham on 13 September 2015.…
Patient access to medical records: proceed with caution There are a number of practical issues to consider if patients are to be given full access to their own medical records.…
NHS patients to get full medical records access by 2016 NHS patients in England will be able to electronically access and contribute to their full medical records by 2016, the Department of Health (DH) has announced.…
Discharge summaries must be electronic from October 2016, says NHS England All discharge summaries for patients transferring from hospitals in England to the care of their GP must be completed electronically from October 2016, as part of new digital standards being introduced by the government.…
