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15 April 2008

Most GP systems will require security upgrades

The majority of GP clinical IT systems will not meet the Department of Health’s new data security requirements for transfer
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14 April 2008

Many practices still rate PBC data as poor

More than four out of ten practices still rate the quality of information they receive for practice-based commissioning as poor
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14 April 2008

NHS Alliance urges full record access for patients

The NHS Alliance is calling for patients to have electronic access to their full primary care record as part of
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10 April 2008

GP2GP hits 100,000 transfers

Connecting for Health has announced that GP2GP has now completed over 100,000 electronic health record transfers. To date, 149 primary
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8 April 2008

Sharing records with realism

In the second of his columns as a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes a local project to share diabetes
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8 April 2008

GP contract to continue IT DES payments

GP practices will be able to continue to claim for work done under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES) for another
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8 April 2008

Libraries encouraged to offer Choose and Book

More than 3000 libraries across England are being encouraged to help patients use NHS Choices and Choose and Book to
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7 April 2008

Pharmacists may get access to patient care records

The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved.
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4 April 2008

NHS Tayside launches video GP trial

NHS Tayside patients are the first to be able to use an out-of-hours GP video link to communicate with nurses
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3 April 2008

What makes a winning team?

The Countess of Chester Hospital team won the Acute Care ICT Team of the Year in the BT e-Health Insider
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