19 May 2005

Data spine could form part of 2011 Census

Data in the 2011 census could come from patient records held on the National Programme for IT, according to a
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18 May 2005

First PACS installations go live … quietly

The first picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) installed under the National Programme for IT went live recently but details
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18 May 2005

Pharmacy IT award nominations now open

The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists have opened nominations for their 2006 annual award for innovative use of information technology within
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18 May 2005

Site lowers blood pressure of procurement officers

An Irish website that aims to painstakingly check and document the medical validations of all the blood-pressure monitoring equipment on
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17 May 2005

Wrong prescription in second GPASS record error

A second patient has been given the wrong prescription in a repeat of a printer error at a Glasgow practice
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17 May 2005

Free UK online health journal planned

The Wellcome Trust and the US National Library of Medicine are intending to set up a UK-based version of the
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17 May 2005

Data remember

Data transferred between GP systems must be scrupulously examined for errors. E-Health Insider looks at the issues involved and where
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16 May 2005

Burns steps down as NPfIT implementation lead

Alan Burns, the chief executive of Trent strategic health authority, has stood down as the implementation lead for the NHS
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16 May 2005

GPs ‘over-perform’ on QoF by £200m

Payments to GPs under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) of the new GMS contract look certain to massively exceed
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16 May 2005

Data quality vital to electronic transfer of prescriptions

Keighley, the first pilot site for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), has found that before new national systems can be
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