Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider’s editor says the Public Accounts Committee’s latest report shows its time to take some tough decisions about NPfIT.
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Call to re-tender for Fujitsu replacement
Conservative health minister Stephen O’Brien has called for a “proper” tendering process to replace Fujitsu as local service provider in the South of England.
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Making a Detailed Care Record a reality
Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care Detailed Care Record has been delivered.
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Black attacks Choose and Book
Choose and Book has reduced healthcare to a factory production line that is detrimental to patient care, the president of the Royal College of Surgeons has claimed. John Black said the traditional system meant patients were referred from their GP to a single consultant, who would then oversee the whole process of care from initial consultation to […]
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Information at heart of NHS Constitution
Providing information to support choice is a “major priority” for the health service, according to the new NHS Constitution for England. A handbook published to support the constitution, which was launched at a “historic signing ceremony” at Downing Street yesterday, highlights a number of areas in which IT and information services will be developed to […]
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PCT providers told to look to GP systems
Newly separated primary care trust provider functions may need to build on existing GP computer systems, rather than wait for the National Programme for IT in the NHS to deliver new solutions. The NHS Alliance, whose membership is made up of PCTs and GPs, has also advised PCTs that they need to look beyond newly […]
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NHS anti-obesity drive goes online
The government has kicked off 2009 with the launch of a three-year anti-obesity initiative with a high profile multi-channel advertising campaign that will span TV, print, billboards and the Internet. Launched on Friday the campaign, called ‘Change4Life’, begins with £8m worth of television advertisements and a range of initiatives to get people to eat better […]
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One third of PCT-practice agreements signed
Just over a third of primary care trust-practice agreements for the GP Systems of Choice framework had been signed by the end of the year, according to NHS Connecting for Health. Latest figures published by the agency show that 2,514 agreements had been signed by 19 December out of a possible 7,519. CfH had originally hoped that […]
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That was the year in primary care IT
Here was the news for 2008
The past 12 months in primary care IT have seen the implementation of a scheme to secure GP IT system choice, increasing numbers of GP records transferred electronically and a new consent model introduced for the NHS Summary Care Record. Less successfully, 2008 also saw the disappearance of one local service provider, the government seemingly […]
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