My verdict on EMIS Web
Our GP columnist Dr Neil Paul takes a look at EMIS’s new system and reports back on his first impressions
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NHS Direct to extend home working
NHS Direct has announced that it will treble the number of staff covered by its home working pilot by March 2011, following the early success of the scheme. The pilot has so far allowed 30 NHS Direct nurses in Milton Keynes and Plymouth to take calls from home. This will be increased to more than […]
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Fund looks to tech to assess access
A think tank has suggested that two technology-based initiatives could be included in a raft of measures to assess the quality of access to general practice. The King’s Fund has argued that opportunity to book appointments online and to communicate with GPs and practice staff by email could be used as access indicators. In a paper […]
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‘Large numbers’ of staff to lose jobs
The Department of Health’s informatics directorate is one of the few areas of the NHS that is safe from change for the moment, a letter from NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned.
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King’s Fund hears more C&B grumbles
Patients value having a choice of hospital but GPs and providers have complaints about the way Choose and Book works to deliver it, according to a report from the King’s Fund.
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GP plans nursing home access to records
A GP is to explore giving nursing home staff electronic access to patient records in a move he claims could save the NHS millions of pounds. Dr Amir Hannan, a GP in Hyde Cheshire who has pioneered patient access to records, has launched a project to enable a local nursing home to access patient records, […]
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EMIS Access ‘could save millions’
Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS claims the NHS could save almost £300m a year if all UK adults used online appointment booking and repeat prescription requesting.
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NHS IT pros urged to ‘keep the faith’
The head of Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Centre has urged NHS professionals engaged in health IT implementations to ‘keep the faith’, as the benefits to patient care are worth the effort.
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Thurrock Health Centre to use SCR
A walk-in centre and GP practice in Essex is to become the first NHS organisation in NHS East of England to use Summary Care Records.
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Burns and Burstow join health team
Two health ministers have been appointed to join health secretary Andrew Lansley at the Department of Health. The appointment of Conservative Simon Burns and Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow suggests there may not be a ministerial place for Conservative Stephen O’Brien or Lib Dem Norman Lamb, who both shadowed health in opposition. However, the junior ministerial […]
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