No boundaries plan needs shared records
The abolition of GP practice boundaries will increase the importance of shared medical records, according to the Department of Health. The DH has launched a consultation on its plans to scrap GP practice boundaries which it argues will meet demand from a “significant minority” of patients to move to a different practice. The consultation looks at […]
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BMA wants tech to save boundaries
The introduction of videophones and webcams in GP surgeries would be a better way of improving patient access than scrapping practice boundaries, according to the British Medical Association. The doctors’ union has recommended a series of local solutions plus changes to the national ‘temporary resident’ system as an alternative to government plans to remove practice […]
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GP ratings launched on NHS Choices
The Department of Health has launched a controversial online rating service to let patients rate and compare GP practices.
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Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign
Tower Hamlets has become the latest primary care trust to use Imprivata OneSign. The single sign-on solution is being rolled out to provide 600 of the trust’s staff with secure access to applications including clinical systems and NHSmail. OneSign is more conventionally used in acute trusts, but it is already being used by other PCTs […]
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Child health strategy to share information
The government plans to promote information sharing across settings to deliver improvements in the health of children and young people, according to a strategy published this week. Healthy lives, brighter futures: the strategy for children and young people’s health says feedback from frontline staff suggests they sometimes feel constrained as to when they can share […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: live on the night
Almost 400 people gathered at the Millennium Mayfair hotel for the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008. Lyn Whitfield was among them.
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Sharing records with realism
In the second of his columns as a grassroots GP, Dr Neil Paul describes a local project to share diabetes records.
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Call for acute patients to get OOH ‘navigation hubs’
Navigation hubs accessed via a single telephone number distinct from 999 should be set up to improve care of patients with acute medical illness, according to a new report from the Royal College of Physicians. In its report, Acute medical care: The right person, in the right setting, first time , the RCP describes current […]
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NHS Wales’ IT programme ‘getting balance right’
After an exhaustive examination of NHS Wales’ progress in IT, Gwyn Thomas seemed pleased with the reports coming back to him last week.
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