Infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare has published its infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales. The first edition covers networking, user access devices, servers and storage, messaging and collaboration, directory and voice services. In each case, the strategy describes the current position, the strategic aim and the next steps towards achieving this aim. However, Informing Healthcare says the resources needed […]
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Further role for NHS Choices in DES guidance
Patients will be able to check whether their GP practice meets national data accreditation standards via NHS Choices, according to NHS Connecting for Health. The IT agency has released new guidance on the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES), which reveals plans to publish practices’ data accreditation status. The guidance states that data accreditation activity logged […]
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Switch to ‘permission to access’ on SCR
Patient information will be uploaded to the Summary Care Record with implied consent and patients will then be able to choose whether to give “permission to access” under the new consent model for the SCR. Individual GPs will also be given discretion to decide whether the initial upload of information should include only details on […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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Choose and Book fails to offer choice
Choose and Book failed to deliver its promise of choice of hospital, time and date of apppintment , a newly-published study shows.
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NHS Direct says it has no 0845 plans
NHS Direct has said it has no plans to switch its premium rate 0845 telephone number to a standard rate 0345 number that has been reserved for its use. Last week BT Wholesale published a briefing note on its website stating that the 0345 4647 number would “eventually replace the NHS Direct number 0845 4647” […]
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DH chooses 40 bodies for information accreditation
A total of 40 organisations have been selected to test the Department of Health’s information accreditation scheme that will award quality marks to bodies producing health and social care information. The initiative will ‘kite mark’ information producers, accrediting the source of information rather than the information itself, to make it easier for people to be […]
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Call for information investment in PBC groups
The NHS Alliance is calling for practice-based commissioning groups to be given the money to fund their own information needs. The Alliance, which represents PCTs and GP practices, has claimed that PCTs’ failure to provide GP practices with accurate and meaningful data has been sabotaging PBC. In a new policy document, A Vision for Practice […]
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NHS Direct wins award for prescription pilot
NHS Direct’s Evelina Children’s Hospital information prescription pilot project has been awarded the 2008 Ask About Medicines Award for ‘Excellence in improving communication between healthcare professionals and patients or medicine users’. The Evelina Children’s Hospital project was designed to start changing the situation of a lack of information around medicines prescribed to children, and to […]
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New EPS clinical director appointed
Dr Manpreet Pujara, one of Connecting for Health’s national GP clinical leads, has been appointed as clinical director for the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS). Dr Puajara, a GP in Rochester, Kent, took over as GP clinical lead alongside Dr Peter Short in January and will now act as clinical director for the EPS as well […]
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