CfH

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18 April 2008

NHS CfH joins open source health collaboration

Open Health Tools has announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies
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18 April 2008

Choose and Book gives some patients wrong information

The Choose and Book system has been hit by a technical problem which has resulted in over 300 patients receiving
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17 April 2008

Wanted: someone to lead on NHS IT

It might be one of the biggest civil IT projects on the planet, but the Department of Health appears to
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15 April 2008

Six thousand practices switch to Systems of Choice

A total of 94% of eligible practices had switched to a GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract by the deadline
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15 April 2008

Free Choice Choose and Book update delayed

The latest update to the national Choose and Book system, containing the new tools required to support patient ‘Free Choice’
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15 April 2008

Most GP systems will require security upgrades

The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer
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10 April 2008

CfH lead says standards important but not enough

Defining standards is important but it is not sufficient, a leading Connecting for Health officer told delegates at a conference
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10 April 2008

GP2GP hits 100,000 transfers

Connecting for Health has announced that GP2GP has now completed over 100,000 electronic health record transfers. To date, 149 primary
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8 April 2008

GP contract to continue IT DES payments

GP practices will be able to continue to claim for work done under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES) for another
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8 April 2008

Libraries encouraged to offer Choose and Book

More than 3000 libraries across England are being encouraged to help patients use NHS Choices and Choose and Book to
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