BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results
The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical of the e-booking system. A copy of the survey has, however, been obtained by EHI Primary Care. At the beginning of February BMA chairman Mr James Johnson promised the survey would be published “shortly” but […]
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NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing
GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to the lab for analysis. Hand-written request forms and labels will be phased out over the next six months under an initiative from Informing Healthcare Wales, the Welsh Assembly Government programme set up to modernise the […]
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Information problems highlighted in complaints review
A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000 complaints between July 2004 and July 2006. The report identified ten common themes that came up regularly from second-stage complaints. Information problems were cited as a cause for complaint with regards to safety, care surrounding […]
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Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter
Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project should be ready to begin by Easter. Speaking at the London Telehealth Symposium yesterday, Granger said that the delayed project summary record will be ready to begin rollout to initial pilot trusts by Easter. Dr […]
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Patients to rate care received using new NHS website
The government is to set up a new website to allow patients to publish and share reviews of care recived from GPs and hospitals. Patients will be able to post detailed reviews of their experiences in their GP surgery or of their hospital appointments, in a similar style to restaurant reviews. The aim of the website is […]
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Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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Local sealed envelopes ‘probably safer’
A risk analysis conducted for NHS Connecting for Health has concluded that patient care would probably be safer using locally held sealed envelopes rather than storing them on the NHS data spine. The recommendations in the internal document, written by risk management company Det Norske Veritas and delivered to CfH in September, would seem to […]
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Bucking the trend
Sunderland PCT is on course to deliver the March 2007 target of 90% of referrals through Choose and Book. EHIPC discovers how.
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Press gang
Have long-running allegations of media bias against the National Programme for IT any basis in fact? IT journalist Michael Cross gives his perspective.
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NHS primary care director to take questions online today
The Department of Health’s national clinical director for Primary Care, Dr David Colin-Thome, will be online at 17.30 on Monday 6 February to answer questions about the new care outside hospital White Paper, ‘Our health, our care, our say’ Dr Colin-Thome will be available online to answer questions on any aspect of the white paper […]
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