Readers’ insight into e-prescribing needed…
EHI is calling for readers to provide their views on the development of acute e-prescribing to inform a round table debate.
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The frustrations of GP e-mail
In the first of a new series of columns from a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes his experiences with e-mail.
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Public favour ‘Full Monty’ on NHS Choices
More than 5000 people have voted ten to one in favour of NHS Choices going for the Full Monty on its body maps
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Dear NPfIT…
Respondents to the recent Medix survey added comments to their answers. Linda Davidson sifted their views.
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Health secretary’s website wins access award
Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who is also Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, won the award for his personal website www.alanjohnson.org, used to communicate news to his constituents. The website is run for […]
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GPs voice key concerns over IT
GPs believe national IT projects are getting priority over their day-to-day IT needs and say problems with servers and desktops are of key concern, according to the results of a PCT-wide survey. Dr Neil Paul a GP in Sandbach, Cheshire, sent a survey to more than 50 practices in Cheshire this summer to find out […]
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‘No alternative’ to MTAS system likely for 2008
Remedy UK, the group set up in the wake of the junior doctors’ job crisis earlier this year, has called for a return to a paper-based, local system for the 2008 round of recruitment to training posts. But the BMA has warned that there may be no alternative but to use the widely discredited MTAS […]
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BMA demands apology from Wales Audit Office
The British Medical Association in Wales has demanded an apology from the Wales Audit Office for suggesting GPs will take advantage of lax governance and commit fraud in their QOF returns. A furious Welsh GPC chairman, Dr David Bailey, has written in strong terms to the Welsh Auditor General, Jeremy Coleman, over the recent WAO […]
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Patient Opinion website extends across England
Patient Opinion, the independent website founded by a Sheffield GP for recording good and bad comments on hospital care, goes nationwide across England this week. Set up in 2005, the website has been piloted over the last 20 months, mainly in selected areas, and enables patients to share the story of their care and rate […]
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Lessons already being learned from early adopters
Dr Gillian Braunold explains how pragmatism and common sense are the touchstone of the summary care record early adopters, which are already shaping policy for future roll-out.
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