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22 November 2006

Virtual Consulting Room successfully piloted

A Virtual Consulting Room offering healthcare professionals the facility to compare notes for medical consultations has been developed by staff
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21 November 2006

NHS broadband leaves GPs in slow lane

Many GP practices are struggling with inadequate broadband speeds over N3 (the new NHS National Network) which are slowing down
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21 November 2006

GPs threaten to block national patient database

One in two GPs have signalled their intention not to upload patients’ clinical details to the NHS Care Records Service
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21 November 2006

Fair deal on NHS broadband

This week EHI Primary Care launches Fair Deal on NHS Broadband, a campaign to get GPs the fast broadband they
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21 November 2006

Survey shows waning medical support for NPfIT

A picture of declining support among doctors for the National Programme for IT emerges from the latest Medix survey of
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20 November 2006

UK practices best for IT to track medical errors

GPs in the UK are well ahead of colleagues around the world in having information systems which track medical errors,
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17 November 2006

Handwritten paperwork “causes delays”

GPs spend too long filling in paperwork by hand, decreasing the amount of time they spend with patients, a survey
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16 November 2006

INPS surgeries to use iPlato text messaging

Primary care software supplier INPS has announced that surgeries across England that use its software will also have the opportunity to use iPlato’s
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16 November 2006

QMS to ditch IDX for Cerner in 2007

Queen Mary Sidcup (QMS), the only London trust to have received a new hospital IT system under the NHS computerisation scheme,
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14 November 2006

GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian

NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS)
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