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16 June 2015

E-Referral Service stabilised – then not

The new NHS e-Referral Service was running well on Tuesday afternoon, but has subsequently suffered another day of problems.
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15 June 2015

Users unable to access E-Referrals

GPs and NHS trusts are unable to access the new NHS e-Referral Service just hours after it was launched, due
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9 June 2015

E-Referral Service booked in for Monday

The NHS e-Referral Service will finally go live this Monday, replacing Choose and Book; but users shouldn't expect major changes
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21 May 2015

‘Health tourist’ info added to the Spine

Data about the surcharge status of immigrants using the NHS has been uploaded to the NHS data Spine, the Health
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19 May 2015

Records access target hit

Nearly all GP practices in England are able to offer a variety of online services to patients, including access to
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12 May 2015

Delay to 700,000 patient opt-outs

The Health and Social Care Information Centre is “extremely concerned” that 700,000 patient objections to having their identifiable data shared
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16 April 2015

Accenture looks set to take over NHSmail

The Health and Social Care Information Centre has confirmed that Accenture is its nominated preferred supplier for the NHSmail service.
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14 April 2015

e-Referral Service ‘live on 15 June’

The new NHS e-Referral Service will go-live on 15 June as part of plans to replace all paper-based referrals.
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Half a million patient correspondents were lost by NHS shared business service.
16 March 2015

Data advisory group to disband

The independent advisory group set up to review requests for GP patient data is being disbanded in favour of two
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10 March 2015

Enter the CCG: filling the smoke filled void

John Lockley finds curious parallels between a smoking chimney and a choking healthcare IT and information set-up. The solution to
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