Live appointment booking cuts waiting times
The introduction of a live patient booking system has resulted in a dramatic reduction of waiting lists and missed appointments for specialist therapy care in Leicestershire, according to the software manufacturers. Ethitec, makers of the Tiara 9 specialist administration, records and appointment-booking software, have claimed that introducing a live appointments system based in a call […]
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Granger: “Fewer than 100” referrals made on ebooking
Richard Granger, Director General of the National Programme for IT, has said that the national programme remains on schedule to help deliver a fully booked NHS by the end of 2005 despite fewer than 100 bookings having yet been made on the Choose and Book electronic appointment booking system. Nevertheless, Granger confirmed that "we […]
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GPC says key questions unresolved on Choose and Book
The General Practitioner Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association has written to GPs advising them that it has serious concerns about Choose and Book, the national electronic appointment booking service, relating to the confidentiality and security of patient information and workload and resource implications of the new system. In a cautionary guidance note issued […]
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Cerner to buy private physician system supplier
Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc, a leader in the US private physician office information technology market. The $100m deal will further expand Cerner’s presence in the physician practice market, a market expected to rapidly grow as the US federal government […]
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Choose and Book faces potential “show stoppers”
Implementation of Choose and Book (CaB), the national electronic appointment booking service, is experiencing serious teething problems with only a very basic, stand alone “naked" version of the e-booking application used so far. One of the pilot sites in Barnsley is understood to have put a freeze on using the main CaB application due to concerns […]
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Survey finds IT consultation inadequate or non-existent
A new survey of doctors’ views of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) shows 92% of medics questioned felt that personal consultation with them had been inadequate or non-existent. The survey by Medix, conducted for the BBC, asked a sample of just over 500 doctors for their views of consultation about the programme and tested their […]
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Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT
E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT’s chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book and what the programme really wants from its suppliers.
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National Programme sets strategy for non-LSP suppliers
The majority of current NHS clinical systems in England will be replaced in the next four years, according to new guidance for existing suppliers published today by the National Programme for IT. A small number of departmental systems number will be integrated into two portfolios built around the two dominant solutions – iSOFT’s Lorenzo and […]
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E-booking milestone reached
In an exclusive E-Health Insider has learned that the national programme for IT has successfully reached one of its key early milestones, with the first on-line patient appointments of the Choose and Book service made in early adopter sites. Despite well publicised delays to the ‘spine’ project, upon which electronic booking is dependent, the first […]
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Blair: Choose and Book historic development
Tony Blair has defended the development of the NHS’s Choose and Book programme, the new name for the new NHS e-booking service, at Prime Minister’s question time as the deadline for the first live e-booking looms closer. Speaking on 16 June, Blair said: "It is this government, for the first time in the context of […]
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