11 March 2009

Online services feel crunchers’ pain

A dedicated NHS Direct telephone line and more information on NHS Choices will be set up as part of a
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10 March 2009

Government turns up the heat on patient power

The government has set out its vision for the future shape of public services, which includes giving patients greater choice
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9 March 2009

Data sharing clause 152 dropped

The government has dropped its controversial plans to make it easier to share personal data across Whitehall departments. Justice Secretary
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9 March 2009

Vision 3 first GPSoC level 4 system

INPS has announced that its Vision clinical system has become the first GP system to achieve GP Systems of Choice
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9 March 2009

NHS Brent gets PBC support

The first project under the Department of Health’s practice-based commissioning support framework has begun work. Clinicians and managers in NHS
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6 March 2009

TPP partners with Voice Connect

GP system supplier TPP has announced a partnership with communications firm Voice Connect to enable GP practices using TPP’s SystmOne
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5 March 2009

DH launches new vision for PBC

Practice-based commissioners are entitled to receive accurate and timely financial and management data and analysis, according to the Department of
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4 March 2009

Call for overhaul of Scottish IT

GP representatives in Scotland have called for full integration of GP and secondary care systems and changes to out-of-hours services
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3 March 2009

Scottish e-prescription claims hit 60 per cent

More than 60% of payment claims for acute prescriptions in Scotland will be made electronically by May, according to the
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3 March 2009

Coroners Bill protest escalates

Eight healthcare organisations have called for medical records to be excluded from the data-sharing provisions of the Coroners and Justice
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