The Adventurous 4.0
In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Choose and Book’s national medical director, Dr Stephen Miller, outlines the latest developments to the online booking system.
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New leaders for NHS IT
The Department of Health has announced Christine Connelly as the first chief information officer for health and named Martin Bellamy as director of programme and systems delivery, leading NHS Connecting for Health. The new appointments follow the departure of Richard Granger as director general of NHS IT in January and a review of NHS IT […]
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GPs shape the future of health IT
In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs, discusses some key issues for the profession.
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Nine in ten patients satisfied with GP access
Nearly nine in ten patients are satisfied with their ability to get through to their GP practice on the telephone, according to the latest survey of almost two million patients. The second annual GP Patient Access Survey shows that 87% of people surveyed reported being happy with telephone access to their GP practice, up slightly […]
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HealthSpace set for big expansion
HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking, according to the Health Informatics Review. The review, published last week, outlines a much wider role for HealthSpace and says its consultation highlighted strong support for the HealthSpace initiative. In future HealthSpace will be accessed […]
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Access to NHS care records may be widened
The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies including private sector organisations.
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Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments
NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become a fact of life in the NHS. Answering MPs’ questions about Choose and Book use at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the NHS IT programme, Nicholson said: “Utilisation of the system […]
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Less than one in twenty patients use NHS Choices
A total of 4% of patients used the NHS Choices website as a source of information to choose their hospital according to the latest Department of Health survey. The 11th National Patient Choice Survey, conducted in January this year by IPSOS Mori, found that GPs were the most popular source of information on choice of […]
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EMIS enables digital TV repeat prescriptions
Patients at around 1,400 surgeries using EMIS Access software across England will soon be able to request repeat prescriptions using digital TV, following an extension of the firm’s partnership with DigiTV. The primary care IT supplier has extended its digital TV service so that as well as being able to book GP surgery appointments via […]
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Choose and Book gives some patients wrong information
The Choose and Book system has been hit by a technical problem which has resulted in over 300 patients receiving wrong appointment information in the post. First noticed last Friday, the problem is still unsolved and is the reason behind Connecting for Health postponing the release of version 4 of the system, which will enable […]
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