Choose and Book fails on air
Enthusiasts and sceptics among the GP community had their say about Choose and Book on a BBC investigation of the national e-booking system last night and one user had the embarrassing experience of taking the presenter through a booking that failed. Dr Andrew Langton a GP in Avon who has carried on using Choose and […]
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TPP commits to more user communication channels
Primary and community care systems supplier, TPP, met over 150 of its customers in its first series of user meetings recently. TPP, whose SystmOne is used in general practice, child health, community and prison health services, has followed up with a commitment to introduce more channels of communication, including regular newsletters and further user meetings […]
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Fame claims online milestone in children’s services
A website set up to promote collaboration in multi-agency working, particularly around children’s services, has said that it has reached a milestone in traffic, now receiving 1,000 unique visitors per month. The Framework for Multi-Agency Environments (FAME) website www.fame-uk.org is a national project set up with support from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister […]
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First P1R2 C+B implementation claimed in Crewe
Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust has upgraded its iCS patient administration system to cope with P1R2 (phase 1, release 2) of Choose and Book. As a result of the upgrade, the trust, based over two sites in Crewe, will now be able to access and review the referral information attached to the electronic appointment messages sent […]
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London child health system led to vaccination problems
Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs in North London and Essex, have created difficulties in identifying which infants and children are due for jabs, issuing vaccination calls and recording whether they have received them. According to a report in the Observer […]
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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Missing link
Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH will have to make for its success.
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Meet the suppliers: Liquidlogic
EHI Primary Care talks to health and social care software specialist Liquidlogic, one of the suppliers to have thrived under the NHS IT programme.
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ePEX accredited for Choose and Book
Ascribe has announced that it has achieved Choose and Book accreditation for its ePEX patient administration system, which is installed in 25% of PCTs in the UK. The ePEX PAS has been designed with primary and community care in mind, with modules that support mental health, learning disabilities, child health and elderly services. The Choose […]
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Meet the suppliers: TPP
In the first article of a series, EHI Primary Care travels to Leeds to spend a day with TPP, the alternative primary care supplier for the North-east and Eastern cluster.
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