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The practice warmly welcome Helen Whiteside who is joining us as a Lead Clinical Pharmacist. In Wakefield GPs have entered into an agreement to work more closely together and to pilot new ways of working. One of these projects is the development of a Clinical Pharmacy team linked to GP Federation. Kings Medical Practice is part of  Five Towns Health Federation. The Federation consists of practices in Normanton, Castleford and Knottingley who have common values and have started working closely together. The Federation will have a small Clinical Pharmacy team that Helen will lead. The aim of the Clinical Pharmacy team is to improve the quality of our prescribing and we are very glad to welcome Helen to our team

The Daily Telegraph had a lead article on Saturday about the safety of GP clinical records with the headline 'Security breach fears over 26 million NHS patients' - click here for the full article. In summary the article was saying that for practices that use SystmOne as their clinical software system (like we do) then anyone in the NHS may be able to your records, without your consent if the practice has set the clinical system to automatically share your records. The short answer is that we do not share your records without your consent and will have asked you if you would like to share your records so your computer records are safe! The slightly longer answer is that the computerised clinical record we have is used by lots of GPs and other healthcare providers including the local hospital, district nurses and health visitors. In SystmOne there is a function called Enhanced Data Sharing Model (eDSM) and it allows staff the opportunity to record your explicit consent for s