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22 May 2009

Nicholson warns of ‘unprecedented’ savings

NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS that it may need to make “unprecedented” levels of savings from
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22 May 2009

GPs warned on honesty of claims

GP practices have been warned to take care when making claims under the Quality and Outcomes Framework given the current row over
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20 May 2009

Government’s CIO praises NHS progress

The government’s chief information officer has praised IT systems in the health sector but has highlighted the need to “drive
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20 May 2009

QResearch pioneer honoured

A GP who set up the QResearch database, using anonymised data from around 10m patients registered at EMIS practices, has
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19 May 2009

Call centres face 084 number inquiry

Call centres run by central government have been given until the end of June to submit information on their use
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19 May 2009

BMA works with NHS Choices on GP ratings

The BMA’s GP committee has confirmed it is working with NHS Choices to enable patients to rate and review their
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19 May 2009

Cost of access to old records agreed

NHS Connecting for Health has set out the options GP practices have to access their old records if they switch to
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18 May 2009

Professionals start using ContactPoint

Up to 800 health, education and social care professionals are to start using the national children’s database ContactPoint from today,
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14 May 2009

Open all hours

NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider
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12 May 2009

IT should make me more money

In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul argues that general practice needs some more business-based IT solutions.
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