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Fresh guidance issued on PBC data requirements

Fresh guidance on practice-based commissioning sets out the minimum data requirements that primary care trusts (PCTs) are expected to provide
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Anger at CMO’s request to forward opt-out coupons

England’s chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has written to all GPs asking them to forward to the Department of
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Report must ‘signal the end of the line for GPASS’

A long-awaited independent report on GPASS ‘must signal the end of the line’ for Scotland’s most commonly used GP system,
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Map of Medicine to pilot PDA access

Map of Medicine are to pilot a PDA-based version of their evidence-based clinical pathway information system for the first time
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Local sealed envelopes ‘probably safer’

A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally
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CfH GP group to discuss N3 speed problems

GP practices’ concerns about N3 are to be discussed at the next meeting of NHS Connecting for Health’s GP Pan
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Health select committee to investigate NPfIT

An inquiry into the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will be held by the House of Commons’ health select committee,
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EMIS offers GP record transfer by CD

All EMIS LV practices in England can now transfer full patient records between practices using a CD, ahead of the
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Fair Deal on Broadband: BT responds

When E-Health Insider Primary Care launched Fair Deal on Broadband, we asked BT to give its perspective on the issues
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Southern SHAs to pilot greater local ownership of NPfIT

The three strategic health authorities in the south of England are piloting a new model of governance for the National
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