6 April 2005

Evercare pilots highlight need for better data

Case management will not get off the ground unless PCTs, acute trusts and GPs improve their data management and quality,
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5 April 2005

GP-to-GP transfer pilot project begins

The National Programme for IT has begun pilots of GP-to-GP record transfer between practices running EMIS and InPractice Systems, using
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5 April 2005

Do no harm

Peter Singleton of Cambridge Health Informatics considers the case of a patient who tried to opt out of electronic recording.
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5 April 2005

Paper records only opt-out available to patients

The government’s policy allowing patients to opt out of the NHS Care Records Service is based on the decision that
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5 April 2005

Computer use embedded in new doctors’ curriculum

The use of modern IT systems and a willingness to use and learn about new technology have been included as
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5 April 2005

Systems choice was a ‘geographical absurdity’

Professor Mike Pringle, one of the clinical leads for the national programme for IT, has described the previous arrangements on
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4 April 2005

Nurses need better access to IT, says RCN survey

A survey of nurses, midwives and health visitors undertaken by the Royal College of Nursing has shown that not enough
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4 April 2005

Practices make performance data available on web

Practices from four primary care organisations (PCOs) have put performance data online as part of a project to test the
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1 April 2005

Community nurses need better information access

The Royal College of Nursing have said that community nurses and others who work in primary care are much less
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1 April 2005

New Information Centre launched

The start of the new NHS financial year sees another round of musical chairs with the abolition of the old
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