Connecting for Health (CfH), the programme to transform NHS IT, is to invite patients and clinicians to discuss confidentiality and security issues surrounding its electronic Care Record Service, it was announced on 22 September 2005. Members of the Care Record Development Board will be available to discuss the issues with delegates at the November conference. Topics to be covered include: what the record means for children and young people; avoiding exclusion and creating inclusion; and the data boundaries of the record.
Harry Cayton, the government's patient tsar and chair of the board, will be speaking along with Richard Jeavons, director of IT service implementation, and Joan Higgins, professor emerita of health policy at the University of Manchester.
Cayton said: "The relationship between patients and clinicians is at the heart of the new digital patient record.
"This conference will report on the work the Care Record Development Board does on behalf of NHS Connecting for Health. Last year's conference helped to set the agenda and this year it will provide patients and healthcare professionals with a real opportunity to input into some of the current issues being faced by NHS Connecting for Health."
The conference is on 24 November at the Business Design Centre, Islington, London, from 9am to 4.15pm.
Quelle: KableNET, 23.09.2005
