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4 December 2007

QoF architects call for changes

The architects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have called for a raft of changes to the scheme as
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3 December 2007

Southampton City to use cardiac telemedicine

Southampton City PCT is to begin use of a telemedicine electrocardiogram interpretation service to give expert cardiology reporting for patients
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30 November 2007

NHS Direct to connect to Spine in 2008

NHS Direct is aiming to connect to the NHS Spine in 2008, in what should be a key step towards
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30 November 2007

Informing Healthcare announce next Wales OOH sites

Patients in north-west Wales and south-west Wales will be the next to benefit from improved information sharing between GP practices
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29 November 2007

NHS Direct on a mission to explain

Matt Tee has been CEO of NHS Direct for the past four months, he told us of his plans for
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29 November 2007

Verbal agreement on IM&T DES payments

GP representatives say they have verbal agreement that GP practices can still be paid for IM&T DES work after the
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28 November 2007

Children’s database delayed to review security

The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full
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27 November 2007

N Yorks GPs protest over system choice

GPs claim their PCT is acting outside the GP Systems of Choice initiative by outlining a plan to encourage all
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26 November 2007

Problems with SUS hamper commissioning

The Department of Health must resolve problems with the Secondary Uses Service if practice-based commissioning (PBC) is to succeed, according
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26 November 2007

QoF: measuring performance, missing the point

Mechanistic management strategies – embedded into computer software – become fixed and static presenting the danger that innovation will be stifled,
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