PCT uses iPlato for children’s jabs reminders
A South London PCT has used the iPlato text messaging system to remind parents that their child requires a booster vaccination. Lewisham PCT wanted to improve patient compliance to the childhood immunisation schedule and so used the iPlato Patient Care Messaging (PCM) system to start a text message campaign reminding parents that their child is […]
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Police recover stolen NHS laptop
A laptop stolen from Nottinghamshire Teaching Primary Care Trust containing the names, addresses and dates of birth of 11,500 children has been recovered by police. The computer was one of three stolen from the PCTs offices at Sherwood Forest Hospital following a break-in on 21 March. It contained data on child patients aged between eight […]
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Additional suppliers catalogue tender released
Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for an ‘Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) Framework Agreement’ is open to a maximum of 500 suppliers, for a period of up to four years. […]
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Agreement reached on CHIA replacement
Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution for child health, on condition BT meets a series of risk mitigation requirements by August. The decision means that some of the PCTs may have to continue using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) for […]
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Exercising Choice
When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary care IT agenda: consent and confidentiality, Choose and Book and systems choice.
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Over 21000 patients search QoF data
Patients have carried out more than 21,000 searches of GP practice data from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) in the last six months. QoF data for England has been available for patients to search since September via a patient-friendly site produced by the Information Centre (IC). The site enables patients to access their own […]
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500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system
StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) and delivered by the CSC Alliance for NHS Connecting for Health. The new GP system, which provides a shared GP clinical record, will support the delivery of care for the 15,500 […]
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Online doctor faces GMC over internet prescribing
A GP who prescribed betablockers for a 16-year-old boy over the internet thwarted attempts by other doctors to keep the youngster off medication, the General Medical Council heard. Julian Eden, a GP who ran online service e-med, prescribed the drugs to the boy, who had a history of mental illness, without discussing it with his […]
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Information problems highlighted in complaints review
A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000 complaints between July 2004 and July 2006. The report identified ten common themes that came up regularly from second-stage complaints. Information problems were cited as a cause for complaint with regards to safety, care surrounding […]
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Derbyshire GPs say information poor on system choice
GPs in Derbyshire whose practices have switched to the GP clinical system TPP offered by their local service provider (LSP) have claimed they were not well informed about available choices for system change. In a survey carried out by Derbyshire Local Medical Committee information about system choice scored worst out of the ten areas covered […]
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