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23 February 2006

Doctors ethics committee undecided on NCRS consent

The British Medical Association’s ethics committee has decided not to back any consent model for the NHS Care Records Service
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21 February 2006

Junior doctor placement website crashing, BMA warns

The BMA have expressed concern that medical students applying online for their first jobs as junior doctors have been unable to
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20 February 2006

New C+B incentives from April announced

Practices will be able to earn approximately £2000 per partner if they can meet government targets on choice and booking
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17 February 2006

Incentives fail to convince GPs on Choose and Book

Only one in three GPs believe the new contract payment for Choose and Book to be introduced from April will
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14 February 2006

Welsh EHR content revealed in updated plan

Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has published the second version of its national case, detailing the proposed content
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23 January 2006

GPC says summary care record must be ‘opt-in’

The General Practitioner Committee of the BMA on Thursday passed a recommendation for patient data to only be loaded up
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11 January 2006

Call for wider use of decision support

A charity is calling for more widespread use of decision support systems in general practice after a survey it commissioned
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10 January 2006

GP calls for judicial review of NCRS consent

A GP is calling for a judicial review of the government’s consent plans for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS).
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20 December 2005

GP contract IM&T incentives announced

GPs are to be offered incentives worth up to £70m in total across England to embrace NHS information and management
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24 November 2005

CfH clinical lead predicts consensus on consent

Connecting for Health and the medical profession will be able to reach a consensus on the consent model for the
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