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.…
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.…
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.…
Breast cancer patients worry about effects of tamoxifen on fertility Tamoxifen has had a major impact on reducing the risk of breast cancer recurrences, but many younger women are either not starting treatment or are discontinuing it early.…
Time to limit the damage caused by inaccurate stories about pharmacists accessing medical records Scaremongering stories from newspapers could damage the trust between pharmacy and the public.…
NHS England and pharmacy organisations defend access to patient data Allowing pharmacists access to summary care records will not adversely affect patient privacy, NHS England says.…
Nurse practitioners in pharmacies: a potential solution to the NHS crisis A pharmacy walk-in service run by nurse practitioners in the United States could be adopted in the UK to ease the burden on the overstretched NHS.…
