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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma on the Operating Framework and the future of the National Programme.
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Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it. Informatics Planning 2009-10, a document published alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, further shifts attention from the National Programme for IT in […]
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Informatics Planning Guidance for primary care
Local health communities must fix a two-year timeline for the full roll-out of the NHS Summary Care Record and move to National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions for community services, the government has said. Informatics Planning Guidance issued today alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10 makes it clear that […]
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Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi
NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11, when the health service’s three year settlement comes to an end. The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, announced by the Department of Health yesterday but only released onto its website this morning, […]
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IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech
The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new information services for the public, the Queen’s speech has confirmed. The National Health Service Reform Bill will give the NHS its first, ever written constitution, drive forward the government’s quality and choice agendas, and strengthen […]
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Choice figures stick again
The percentage of people who recall being offered a choice of hospital remains at just one under in two patients, according to the latest National Choice Survey. The Department of Health’s July survey of 93,000 patients shows that 46% remembered being offered a choice of hospital. Provisional findings for September show that 46% of patients recalled […]
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Five priorities for primary care IT
Grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul outlines the five priorities for NHS IT that have been identified in his area.
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Left to their own devices?
An E-Health Insider survey has revealed a mixed picture on mobile device security. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices
Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the bid to run the DH flagship site, today launched Drfosterhealth.co.uk, which brings together information from its consumer guides to hospitals, consultants, birth and complementary therapists. The website aims to be “the complete online medical guide […]
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