BMA to debate CSS ‘outsourcing’ fears
Doctors are to consider calling for the outsourcing of commissioning support services to be halted at the BMA’s Annual Representative Meeting this month.
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ARM doesn’t call for end of NPfIT or SCR
Doctors’ representatives have stopped short of backing calls for the withdrawal of co-operation from the Summary Care Record programme. They have also refused to seek cancellation of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. GPs and hospital doctors at the BMA’s annual representative meeting did, however, endorse the BMA’s policy that patients should be […]
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Data published as Whitehall is reviewed
The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts that will be reviewed by the new government to ensure value for money. A joint Treasury and Cabinet Office Efficiency and Reform Group, led by Paymaster General Francis Maude, is examining all new contracts worth […]
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QRISK2 goes open source
The heart disease risk assessment tool QRisk2 has been made available as open source software by Nottingham University and healthcare IT suppliers EMIS. The university and EMIS said the decision would mean all users, including academics, PCTs and commercial health software suppliers, would be able to develop software using QRisk2 free of charge. The move […]
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Rotherham physios flex digital pens
Rotherham Community Health Services has introduced digital pen and paper and increased the productivity of its physiotherapists by 35%. The community provider arm of NHS Rotherham said the use of Ubisys’s Anoto Digital Pen and Paper by physiotherapists was helping to meet its objectives for a complete care record and increase productivity and efficiency. The […]
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UnitedHealth buys ScriptSwitch for £50m
ScriptSwitch, the provider of drug comparison software to doctors’ surgeries, has been acquired by UnitedHealth UK, for a reported sum of £50m.
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Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT
The British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and for more action to protect patient privacy.
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Apprentice sells ad screens to NHS
The winner of the BBC business entertainment series The Apprentice will work for a business selling digital signs to GP practices and other NHS bodies. Yasmina Siadatan has been given a £100,000 job with Sir Alan Sugar’s Amscreen Health Care business. Siadatan beat off competition from 15 other competitors in the award-winning business show to […]
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New QRISK2 for heart disease launched
A new version of the QRISK software which identifies patients most at risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been released for clinical use. QRISK2 uses a new CVD equation to estimate an individual’s risk of developing heart disease over the next ten years, drawing on analysis of primary care data from practices using the […]
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Five priorities for primary care IT
Grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul outlines the five priorities for NHS IT that have been identified in his area.
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