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7 March 2006

RCGP backs ‘opt-in’ model for national care records

The Royal College of General Practitioners has decided to back an ‘opt-in’ model for the national NHS Care Records Service
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3 March 2006

‘Upcoding’ a hazard as PbR pressure grows

Clinical coders are coming under pressure to ‘upcode’ to maximise income under Payment by Results, a conference heard last week.
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20 February 2006

DES payments to GPs for IM&T work unveiled

Preparation for the National Programme for IT could earn practices £1.33 per patient next year under the new payment scheme for
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16 February 2006

Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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16 February 2006

HIMSS makes European move

Nine European organisations and HIMSS, the US-based Health Information and Management Systems Society, have combined to produce a new conference,
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13 February 2006

No money for GPs to enter records in NCRS

GPs will receive no additional funding for the entry of patient records to the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) or
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8 February 2006

Manchester hospitals link up with GPs

Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically
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3 February 2006

Birmingham HSCIC staff protest at relocation

Unhappy staff caught up the relocation needed to establish the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have protested that the decision to
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31 January 2006

White paper outlines IT role in community services

Patients will be able to complete an online self-assessment of their health and send it electronically to their GP to
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31 January 2006

CfH announces awards for health IT innovation

 Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in
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