31 October 2006

Online care pathways for cancer developed

The NHS Cancer Services Collaborative ‘Improvement Partnership’ (CSCIP) has developed a national electronic information pathway designed to point cancer patients
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31 October 2006

Guidance on exception reporting published

The publication of exception reporting data for the Quality and Outcomes Framework will reveal total numbers of patients excepted for
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31 October 2006

GP practices to pilot updating details on nhs.uk

A pilot is underway to enable GP practices to update and maintain their own entries on www.nhs.uk – the official
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31 October 2006

NHS data ‘not accurate enough’ to assess doctors

NHS hospital episode data is not accurate enough to monitor individual doctors’ performance, according to a pilot study conducted by
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30 October 2006

NHS Scotland signs Microsoft licensing deal

NHS Scotland has signed a national deal with Microsoft to supply office software and desktop operating systems at a discounted
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30 October 2006

LSPs fail ‘acid test’ on PAS deployments

Delivery of the patient administration systems due to form the foundation for future electronic patient records in NHS hospitals has
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27 October 2006

Warner rejects call for CfH architecture review

Health minister Lord Warner has rejected calls from leading computer academics for an independent review of the technical architecture of
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27 October 2006

HL7 conference calls for wider interoperability

Standards drive innovation, catalyse industry growth and create opportunities for many companies in the industry, the HL7 UK conference heard
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27 October 2006

Choice questions dropped in survey dispute

Questions for patients on the choice element of the Choose and Book incentive scheme have been dropped from a national
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26 October 2006

Cerner confident of signing BT deal ‘soon’

Cerner says that it remains confident of signing a deal with BT “soon” to deliver its software to NHS trusts
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