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4 January 2008

C+B incentives to go to extended access

GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April
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3 January 2008

Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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20 December 2007

After the security storm

Data security experts believe the recent HMRC recent data disaster holds vital lessons for the health service, EHI editor Linda
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20 December 2007

DH found guilty on MTAS data protection breach

The Information Commissioner’s Office has found the Department of Health in breach of the Data Protection Act following an investigation
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11 December 2007

DH offers guidance on GP patient survey

The Department of Health has issued guidance to GP practices on how its £10m survey on GP patient access and
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10 December 2007

BMA to attempt to control internet drug sales

The British Medical Association (BMA) is to work with the UK government and the World Health Organisation to control internet
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27 November 2007

N Yorks GPs protest over system choice

GPs claim their PCT is acting outside the GP Systems of Choice initiative by outlining a plan to encourage all
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6 November 2007

GP claims PDS increases information theft

The practice of extracting confidential patient information from GP practice staff has become much more frequent since the introduction of
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18 October 2007

A quarter of GPs say IT systems not working well

Almost one in four GPs believe their practice IT system is not working effectively, according to a major BMA survey
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9 October 2007

Patient pressure to drive Choose and Book

Choose and Book boss Dr Stephen Miller explains why he believes it will be patients that force the adoption of
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