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19 March 2007

GP2GP reaches 500th mark ahead of time

Connecting for Health has implemented GP2GP at 500 practices, almost a month before the planned deadline of 31 March 2007.
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16 March 2007

OOH performance measurement poor, says report

Many primary care trusts are unable to measure their performance on out-of-hours care, partly because providers do not have the
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15 March 2007

Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out

The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at
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8 March 2007

Islington PCT uses texts for stop smoking campaign

GP surgeries in Islington, London, are using SMS text messaging software from suppliers iPlato to promote its smoking cessation campaigns.
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6 March 2007

Agreement reached on CHIA replacement

Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution
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6 March 2007

Exercising Choice

When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary
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1 March 2007

Funding axed for ambulance IT system

Urgent talks are underway to save a computerised capacity and activity monitoring system (CAMS) used to direct ambulances to hospitals
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1 March 2007

More teamwork needed to make PBC a reality

A report by an independent steering group of experts from the NHS, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence has called for
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28 February 2007

Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner

Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with
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27 February 2007

Summary care records planned for end of 2008

Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end
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