Confidentiality

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9 December 2004

Choose and Book leaders answer their critics

Leaders of the Choose and Book programme this week attempted to answer concerns raised by GP representatives about the security
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26 November 2004

CRDB conference stokes debate on patient awareness

E-Health Insider reports on the Care Records Development Board’s first conference, in London, which aimed to address the tough questions
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25 November 2004

GPC says key questions unresolved on Choose and Book

The General Practitioner Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association has written to GPs advising them that it has serious
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16 November 2004

New QOF software to hide data, but not for all GPs

NPfIT has developed software that automatically anonymises GP electronic patient records for audit by primary care organisations under the Quality
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15 November 2004

Choose and Book faces potential “show stoppers”

Implementation of Choose and Book (CaB), the national electronic appointment booking service, is experiencing serious teething problems with only a
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15 October 2004

Life outside NPfIT: Wales

In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the
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14 October 2004

New Caldicott guardian for national programme

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has appointed the head of its digital information policy team, Phil Walker, as its
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19 August 2004

Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern

Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the
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3 August 2004

Doctors’ support for NPfIT tailing off, says survey

A new survey has revealed that doctors’ support for the aims of the national programme has fallen to 54% from
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21 July 2004

ETP might have blocked Shipman, inquiry says

Electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP) could have stopped Dr Shipman from prescribing controlled drugs for so long without anybody noticing,
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