Quality

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6 September 2005

Record-keeping weakest link in QoF scores

The worst performing indicator group in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) last year was records and information, according to
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6 September 2005

CfH business plan indicates delivery delay

NHS Connecting for Health has issued its first annual business plan listing the agency’s achievements and setting out a programme
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2 September 2005

Predictive risk software launched for NHS

  New predictive risk software which will provide the NHS with an ‘early warning’ system to help some patients avoid
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2 September 2005

Illegal online pharmacies ‘threat to public health’

A paper published by think-tank the Centre for Reform has warned of the dangers of unregulated online pharmacies and is
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31 August 2005

QoF results publication reveals quality of care

Practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcome Framework for England are being published today although technical problems have delayed
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30 August 2005

QoF data to be published online

Practices will no longer have to release Quality and Outcome Framework data if asked to do so under the Freedom of
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26 August 2005

St George’s publishes all mortality data online

St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, has become the first NHS hospital in the UK to publish graphs of mortality
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25 August 2005

The apprentice

John Aird, director of IM&T at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), describes a thriving grow-your-own scheme for
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18 August 2005

Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed

Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the
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8 August 2005

Electronic records ‘a first step’ to knowledge-based care

Electronic records are just the first step in harnessing information and communication technology to improve clinical care – the real
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