26 January 2009

Making a Detailed Care Record a reality

Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care
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26 January 2009

ContactPoint goes live

The government has launched its national children’s database, ContactPoint, which will provide demographic data on every child in the country
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26 January 2009

Probe into lost appointment bookings at Barts

More than 400 patients have had to wait more than 13 weeks, after details of 2,000 telephone bookings were left
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23 January 2009

Black attacks Choose and Book

Choose and Book has reduced healthcare to a factory production line that is detrimental to patient care, the president of the
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21 January 2009

CfH proposes training accreditation scheme

NHS Connecting for Health is asking NHS IT training departments to complete an online questionnaire to support the business case
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20 January 2009

IT templates for long term care plans

GPs and primary care staff will be expected to offer personalised care plans to almost 15m people living with a
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20 January 2009

Paediatrics application system glitch

National software used by doctors to apply for specialist training posts in paediatrics has been suspended after faults were discovered
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19 January 2009

Interactive websites for Liverpool GPs

Liverpool Primary Care Trust has commissioned individual websites for ten PCT-run GP practices, as part of its commitment to providing
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19 January 2009

Data watchdog urged to examine legality of NHS database

A GP who is campaigning against the NHS Care Records Services is calling on the watchdog for NHS data to
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16 January 2009

PCT providers told to look to GP systems

Newly separated primary care trust provider functions may need to build on existing GP computer systems, rather than wait for
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