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9 February 2006

New GP choice proposals outlined

NHS Connecting for Health has outlined new proposals for delivering GP system choice based on a multi-step accreditation process. If
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8 February 2006

Manchester hospitals link up with GPs

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically
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7 February 2006

Not so secure

Fiona Barr explains the background to the recent controversy over confidentiality in the personal demographics service.
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7 February 2006

Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs

The two most senior GP representatives in England have written to Connecting for Health to demand reassurances on patient confidentiality
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7 February 2006

Egton and Brother to offer extended warranties

Egton and Brother have started to offer extended technical support to their products in what they are calling an industry
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3 February 2006

EPS pilot to restart after early glitch

One of England’s first electronic prescription service (EPS) pilots has been shut down for more than a month because of
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1 February 2006

Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’

A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS
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31 January 2006

PCT agrees to fund infrastructure upgrade

A primary care trust has agreed to fund replacement servers for practices in its area just days before an arbitration
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31 January 2006

Choose and Book target now March 2007

The target date for the implementation of Choose and Book has been moved back again, this time to March 2007.
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31 January 2006

White paper outlines IT role in community services

Patients will be able to complete an online self-assessment of their health and send it electronically to their GP to
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