Microsoft agreement with the NHS expires
Microsoft’s Enterprise-wide Agreement with the NHS has expired and is yet to be resigned with NHS Connecting for Health.
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PCTs look for GP agreement to SCR
Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in areas where their roll-out had been suspended.
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DH and BMA say as you were on SCR
Primary care trusts will be allowed to create and upload Summary Care Records so long as GP practices agree, the Department of Health and the BMA have agreed.
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GPs told to tee up SCR information drive
GP practices have been advised to educate their patients about the Summary Care Record while the suspension of its roll-out is in place. The Department of Health announced last week that it had suspended the accelerated roll-out of the SCR following a call from the BMA to halt the upload of records. The BMA had […]
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SCR roll-out suspended
The Department of Health has suspended the roll-out of the Summary Care Record in the five strategic health authorities where accelerated implementation has been underway.
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CfH signs £36m McKesson PAS support deal
NHS Connecting for Health has signed a £36m, four year deal with McKesson to continue to provide support for the patient administration systems used by 26 trusts.
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C&B records highest monthly usage figure
Choose and Book has recorded its highest monthly usage figure, with 58% of all first outpatient referrals made via the system. NHS Connecting for Health’s latest validated figures for the first two months of this year show an increase in usage of the system from 50% to 58%. CfH said monthly booking volumes had also risen […]
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System C consortium completes ITK test
Four healthcare IT suppliers have successfully completed testing for the transfer of discharge summaries from hospital to social care using NHS Connecting for Health’s Interoperability Toolkit standard. System C, Microsoft, Orion Health and Liquidlogic say their solution takes a patient discharge summary created on System C’s Medway PAS/EPR and sends it within an electronic message to […]
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Just 752 patients view their SCR online
Just 752 patients out of the more than 1.2m who have a Summary Care Record have opted to view their SCR on HealthSpace.
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Spine could be engineered for XDS-I
Engineering the NHS Spine to support an XDS-I based solution for medical image sharing is “possible, but reasonably hard”, BT technologists have concluded.
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