16 April 2009

King’s Fund launches primary care inquiry

The King’s Fund has launched an 18-month inquiry into primary care in England that will aim to produce a set of measures
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16 April 2009

EMIS Web to receive CfH approval by autumn

EMIS Web, the next generation clinical system from GP system supplier EMIS, is likely to get NHS Connecting for Health
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15 April 2009

North East Essex runs pilot with Tunstall

NHS North East Essex has announced that it plans to install 40 telehealth units by September in a pilot project
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14 April 2009

INPS warns of possible QoF problems

Around 20% of GP practices in the UK may have errors in their end of year returns for the Quality
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14 April 2009

GPs should be paid for hosted systems

GP practices using a hosted system that has yet to receive NHS Connecting for Health approval should still be awarded the IT incentive
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8 April 2009

Two thirds of GPs sign up for IGSoC

Around two-thirds of GP practices had signed up to NHS Connecting for Health’s information governance standards by the deadline of the
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7 April 2009

Information prescriptions expanded

The Department of Health is publicising information prescriptions and has said that an information accreditation scheme should be launched later
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3 April 2009

GP2GP hits half a million transfers

More than 500,000 electronic patient records have now been transferred between GP practices using GP2GP software, NHS Connecting for Health
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2 April 2009

GPs to be revalidated online

All GPs will be expected to complete an electronic portfolio for revalidation from April 2010, according to the Royal College
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1 April 2009

QoF to become GQ

The Quality and Outcomes Framework is to be renamed, EHI Primary Care has learned. The National Institute for Health and
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