GPs

17 July 2003

Health Secretary John Reid has upped the ante on the Government’s patient choice agenda and the electronic appointment booking targets,

16 July 2003

Understanding the complex shifting relationship between the NHS Information Authority and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS

15 July 2003

A major step towards electronic prescribing for out-of-hours (OOH) doctors in England has been taken with the launch of new

14 July 2003

Virtual outreach consultations across video conference links save time and money for patients but incur greater costs for the NHS

3 July 2003

The two remaining operational pilots for electronic transfer of prescriptions ETP are to be ended by the Department of Health

24 June 2003

In the new slot for opinion and comment Dr Nilesh Jain of Torex Health takes up the question of GPs

19 June 2003

Dr John Chisolm, chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners Committee (GPC) has pledged to fight to defend

17 June 2003

The NHS out-of-hours (OOH) modernisation programme has set up a dedicated website offering policy and technical information and news updates.

5 June 2003

A new report by the Audit Commission concludes that more than half of all NHS trusts in England have diverted

29 May 2003

Halton primary care trust (PCT) and Warrington PCT are to develop an integrated XML-based repository of real-time patient records that

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