Choose and Book reaches 20m referrals
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that 20m referrals have now been made through Choose and Book. The Department of Health’s IT agency said the achievement was a "key milestone" for the e-booking system, which was launched in 2004. However, the figures also show that the system is currently used for around 50% of first outpatient […]
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Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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GPs join attack on SCR roll-out
GP leaders have joined the attack on the roll-out of the Summary Care Record, calling for an immediate halt to the roll-out and an urgent discussion of the issues with the Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health. The BMA’s General Practitioner Committee, which represents all GPs in the UK, passed a unanimous motion saying […]
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Waltham Forest links RiO and C&B
NHS Waltham Forest has become the first primary care trust in London to link up its RiO electronic patient record system with Choose and Book.
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RCP and CfH launch online standards tool
The Royal College of Physicians and NHS Connecting for Health have launched e-learning modules to support national standards for hospital record keeping drawn up by the RCP’s Health Informatics Unit and signed off by the Academy of Royal Medical Colleges. The online tool allows users to complete training two modules; one covering the principles of good […]
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Hants GP wants explicit consent for SCR
A GP practice in Hampshire has recorded opt-out requests for the Summary Care Record from 20% of its patients, having pledged not to upload any records without explicit consent.
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BMA says ‘suspend SCR roll-out’
The British Medical Association has written to the government calling for the roll-out of the Summary Care Record to be suspended.
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Letter errors fuel SCR roll-out row
The British Medical Association is getting ready to step up its opposition to the roll-out of the Summary Care Record as NHS Connecting for Health confirms that some patients have received information packs meant for others.
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GP2GP reaches 1m transfer milestone
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that 1 million records have now been transferred using its GP2GP record transfer system. CfH said that the project reached the 1milestone in February, and predicted that the number of GP practices involved and the number of systems enabled to use the system would both grow later in the […]
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BT to run N3 videoconferencing service
NHS Connecting for Health and BT have announced that BT is to offer a national videoconferencing service over N3, the broadband network that it built and manages for the NHS. The N3 Video Conferencing Managed Service will be run by the company’s videoconferencing unit, BT Conferencing. It will launch in June, but trusts can sign […]
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