NHS England halts mass rollout of automatic patient access to GP records

NHS England has instructed the IT system suppliers EMIS and TPP not to switch on automatic patient access to GP records for any practices that have requested more time, after talks with the BMA.The Accelerating Citizen Access to GP Data programme was supposed to see all general practices switched over to automatic patient access from 1 November 2022, but concerns over safeguarding and the workload required to prepare the records for sharing prompted NHS England to give practices an extension to 30 November if they were not ready.1However, in an update on 29 November2 NHS England said that “for those practices that have asked EMIS and TPP not to enable this [automatic access] change, we have instructed both suppliers to pause.” It said that this was in recognition of “current pressures” and that it would continue to work with the BMA, the Royal College of General Practitioners, and local commissioning…
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