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22 May 2007

An independent view

Professor Tricia Greenhalgh is conducting an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record. She explains why the work is so
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22 May 2007

Hopes for GP2GP completion by end of 2008

Connecting for Health hopes to rollout its GP2GP record transfer project to every practice in England by the end of
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21 May 2007

Diabetic patients pilot new shared health records

Diabetic patients in Carmarthenshire, Wales are piloting new electronic health records which will share all information about their care and
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18 May 2007

NAO says information vital to cutting prescribing costs

A National Audit Office study has found that the NHS could save £200m a year by GPs prescribing drugs fewer
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18 May 2007

Suffolk trusts deploy VoIP over N3 network

Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Suffolk Primary Care Trust have deployed a new voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system
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18 May 2007

GPs to continue to get financial incentives for C+B

The national incentive scheme to reward GP practices for using Choose and Book is to continue for 2007/8, following months
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15 May 2007

Network boss says N3 is ‘amazing’

Stuart Hill, chief executive officer of N3 and Len Chard, Connecting for Health's programme director for N3, are adamant that
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15 May 2007

GPs to be offered 8MB N3 links2

GP practices may be able to upgrade their N3 connection to receive bandwidth of up to 8MB from later this
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15 May 2007

Brown plays a safe hand with electronic scripts

The chancellor Gordon Brown has called for more electronic prescriptions to be issued in the NHS, as part of his
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14 May 2007

EMIS seeks 100 pilot practices for patient record access

A patient record access group is looking for 100 EMIS practices to take part in a pioneering project allowing patients
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