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2 August 2005

King’s Fund calls for technology use in chronic care

A King’s Fund report into the management of long-term conditions has called for PCTs to put more emphasis on using
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27 July 2005

Call for drug ad ban in Australian prescribing software

A survey of drug advertisements in prescribing software used by Australian doctors found the vast majority of the advertisements broke
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17 May 2005

Data remember

Data transferred between GP systems must be scrupulously examined for errors. E-Health Insider looks at the issues involved and where
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28 April 2005

No show from iSOFT at GP2GP transfer meeting

One of the leading GP system suppliers has been criticised after dropping out of a demonstration of GP2GP record transfer
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19 April 2005

QoF results publication likely in next two months

Quality and Outcomes Framework results for every practice in England and Scotland are likely to be published on government websites
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12 April 2005

NI GPs fear raid on computer money

GPs in Northern Ireland say money earmarked for primary care IT has been subject to huge delays and fear the
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5 April 2005

Paper records only opt-out available to patients

The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that
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30 March 2005

Practice manager finds no opt-out from NCRS

A practice manager has tried and failed to prevent her health record, which contains a significant error, being stored in
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21 March 2005

Northern Ireland announces new health IT strategy

Northern Ireland has announced plans to develop its own electronic care record in a move which has led to calls
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9 February 2005

E-mail mentoring to help budding nurses

The University of East Anglia has set up an e-mail mentoring programme to help 14-15 year-olds from deprived backgrounds who
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