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8 November 2005

CfH to examine health and social care links

Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be
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8 November 2005

First live GP2GP record transfer

The first live electronic transfer of a patient’s record between GPs using GP2GP record transfer has occurred under the NHS
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8 November 2005

Parliament told of GPs’ scepticism over C+B

GPs are slowly becoming more knowledgeable about Choose and Book and its implications while gradually becoming more negative about it,
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3 November 2005

IT has critical role in patient safety, says watchdog

 Public service watchdog, the National Audit Office, has underlined the key role IT should play in improving patient safety not
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3 November 2005

Ealing and Southend-on-Sea start patient txt messaging

Mobile messaging firm iPlato  has announced that practices from two more primary care trusts in England have started using its
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2 November 2005

GPs cautioned on taking part in PBC

GP representatives are advising GPs not to take part in practice based commissioning if they feel that funding for the
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1 November 2005

Adapt or perish

Barbara Stuttle, NHS Connecting for Heath's community nursing lead, speaks to EHI Primary Care about the urgent need for the
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1 November 2005

Community nurses to start e-prescribing pilot in 2006

Community nurses are to take part in NHS Connecting for Health pilots of electronic nurse prescribing early next year. Barbara
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1 November 2005

Choose and Book ‘will be a year late’

The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is
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31 October 2005

Choose and Book referrals top 20,000

GP referrals made under Choose and Book have topped the 20,000 mark on a curve that is “rising but delayed”,
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