appointments

Archive

Agreement reached on CHIA replacement

Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution
Read More

NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing

GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to
Read More

500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system

  StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by
Read More

GPC says patients should call C+B when no slots available

GP representatives are recommending that practices tell patients to ring the Choose and Book appointments line if they are no
Read More

GP questions Hewitt on ‘vanishing’ C+B services

A GP has questioned health secretary Patricia Hewitt about the use of Choose and Book for demand management as a
Read More

Bedford Hospital using C+B to manage demand, GPs claim

Bedford Hospital is rejecting GP referrals not made through Choose and Book in an attempt to manage demand for its
Read More

Information problems highlighted in complaints review

A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000
Read More

Nuffield Hospitals begin rollout of direct Choose and Book

The Nuffield Hospitals group have gone live with the directly bookable NHS Choose and Book system at its site in
Read More

MP’s website checks two-day GP target

A website that enables people to report problems getting appointments with their GPs within the 48-hour national target has been
Read More

i-Contact aims to combat missed appointments

A new web-based communications engine called i-Contact has been developed to help GPs combat the problem of missed appointments. The
Read More