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Another view of free wi-fi

GP Neil Paul wonders why the NHS doesn’t provide free wi-fi for all its staff; and has some ideas for
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Southern Health creates directory app

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has launched a smartphone app to give patients and GPs information on local health services.
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Central funding of NHSmail SMS to end

Plans to end central funding of email-to-SMS services for NHSmail2 will “go down like a lead balloon” with GPs, a
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Plans for £230m GP IT spend released

NHS England has released its plans for how more than £230m in GP IT funding will be spent over the
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Southern GPs migrate to Windows 7

Hundreds of GP practices across the south of England are migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7 under a programme
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GPs doing well on data protection – ICO

Most GP surgeries have good patient data protection schemes in place, but email and USB security and breach reporting could
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Enter the CCG

Dr John Lockley would like to introduce you to Paula; the woman who inspired ‘the Paula Test’ that IT suppliers,
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Another view

GP Neil Paul is fed up of passwords. It’s high time, he says, for someone to create an NHS identity
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GP Challenge Fund opens for bids

A £50m Challenge Fund for GPs to extend patient access through services such as extended opening hours and greater use
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GP indicators added to NHS Choices

Forty indicators about GP practice standards and performance have been added to the NHS Choices Accountability Tool.
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