GPs

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27 March 2007

Funding for data accreditation must be a priority

Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference
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26 March 2007

Consider ethical issues of care record, MDU advises

GPs need to consider going beyond implied consent before allowing patient information to be uploaded to the spine, according to
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26 March 2007

Cerner deal signed to aid 18 week wait target

Healthcare information technology specialist, Cerner, will be helping trusts in North-west and South-west England to meet the government target for
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22 March 2007

Minister to look at C+B issue with ‘sensitive’ patients

Patients who withhold their names and addresses to protect their personal safety are being ‘disenfranchised’ from the NHS when their
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22 March 2007

Framework sets out plan for joined up IT

The government has set out a radical plan for joining up health and social care IT systems and sharing information
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21 March 2007

Blair says information vital for ‘personalised’ services

While suppliers and health IT professionals gathered in Harrogate this week in London Prime Minister Tony Blair set out the
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20 March 2007

IT delays contribute to NHS trust deficits

Delays in implementing the National Programme for IT are listed by the influential Commons public accounts committee today as a factor leading
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20 March 2007

First GP2GP records transferred between different systems

The first GP2GP record transfers between different GP computer systems has taken place, health minister Lord Hunt has announced. The
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19 March 2007

GPs vote against C+B boycott

GP representatives have voted against a boycott of Choose and Book and left it up to individual practices to decide
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19 March 2007

Patient choice moves onto buses

With the government’s target for 90% of GP patient referrals to be done using the electronic Choose and Book system
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