NHS Choices receives 100m visits in year
The Department of Health has reported that NHS Choices received more than 100m visits last year. It has also published research indicating that patients who visited the website were less likely to consult a GP.
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Connelly to speak at EHI Live 2010
The NHS’ director general of informatics, Christine Connelly, will be speaking at eHealth Insider Live 2010 next week.
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GPs told check consent for SCR add-ons
GP practices that have added additional information to Summary Care Records without explicit patient consent have been told to gain consent or remove the information as soon as possible. NHS Connecting for Health has written to primary care trusts outlining the need for practices to gain explicit consent for any enrichment of the SCR, following the […]
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Summary Care Record given go-ahead
The Summary Care Record is to go ahead, but its content will be limited to core information and an opt-out form will be included in patient information packs.
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EHI Live 2010 for primary care
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, author of an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace, will be one of the speakers at eHealth Insider Live 2010. In what promises to be a fascinating speech on Monday 8 November, she will outline what it meant to be an independent evaluator of two controversial NHS IT programmes […]
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NME trusts look to portals
The effective end of the National Programme for IT in the NHS at a time of economic constraint is likely to mean fewer big EPR deployments and more focus on integration.
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Cruickshank: clarity needed on future
John Cruickshank, the author of a well received report on ‘Fixing NHS IT’, has called for more clarity about its future direction following the effective end of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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NPfIT’s GP elements to become services
The GP elements of the National Programme for IT in the NHS are destined to become services, while a review of the Summary Care Record will focus on consent and ‘enrichment.’
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Little change on LSP contracts: Connelly
The Department for Health’s director general for informatics has emphasised that local service provider contracts are still in place; although negotiations with CSC have yet to be concluded.
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NPfIT future is modular and locally-led
The National Programme for IT in the NHS’ centralised approach is “no longer required” and will be replaced with “more locally-led” procurement and a modular approach to deployment.
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