Surgeries Sign Up to Share Patients' Data ; Five More Practices Join Pioneering Scheme

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FIVE more GP surgeries have signed up to a pioneering scheme which will allow patient records to be seen by medics and nurses anywhere in the country.

Doctors have warned private and personal information could be leaked, but NHS Stoke-on-Trent says the new hi-tech Summary Care Records system will save lives. About 12,000 patients from surgeries in Burslem, Norton and Hartshill have already had their details uploaded onto the system.

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Surgeries Sign Up to Share Patients' Data ; Five More Practices Join Pioneering Scheme

Now another 30,000 people registered at surgeries in Longton, Goldenhill and Milton will be added.

Records are usually only available to a person's own...

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