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20 February 2006

New C+B incentives from April announced

Practices will be able to earn approximately £2000 per partner if they can meet government targets on choice and booking
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20 February 2006

MHRA implements adverse drug reaction software

The government’s medicines safety agency has implemented new software to improve management of adverse drug reaction (ADR) data reported by
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17 February 2006

Incentives fail to convince GPs on Choose and Book

Only one in three GPs believe the new contract payment for Choose and Book to be introduced from April will
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16 February 2006

Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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16 February 2006

Poll shows strong clinical support for IT modernisation

An online poll carried out by Doctors.net.uk found that has found that 80% of doctors say they support moves to
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16 February 2006

ECGs by phone for GPs in the north west

GPs in Lancashire and Cumbria SHA have started using a telephone-based clinical monitoring service, using small devices that take ECGs
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14 February 2006

GP-to-GP record transfer roll-out slows

The second pilot site for GP2GP transfer of patient records is due to get underway next week but rollout of
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14 February 2006

CfH says Choose and Book fixes imminent

Connecting for Health says it has fixed or will ‘very shortly’ correct some of the problems in the Choose and
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13 February 2006

No money for GPs to enter records in NCRS

GPs will receive no additional funding for the entry of patient records to the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) or
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10 February 2006

GP2GP transfers deferred from 2006-07 DES

Electronic GP2GP transfers of patient records will not be part of the coming year’s direct enhanced service (DES) for information
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