Commissioning

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25 September 2008

Hospitals to assess satisfaction ‘in real time’

Health secretary Alan Johnson told the Labour Party conference yesterday that he wants to see NHS trusts collecting “immediate feedback”
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17 September 2008

London payroll and Tees patient records lost

Four computer disks, containing more than seven years’ worth of payroll information for nearly 18,000 NHS staff in London, have
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2 September 2008

Slight increase in satisfaction with PBC data quality

GPs have become marginally more satisfied with the quality of the data they receive for practice-based commissioning over the past
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2 September 2008

One in ten hospital episodes miscoded

Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission. The
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11 August 2008

Choice on the buses

Solihull NHS Care Trust and Birmingham East and North Primary Care Trust have launched a four month advertising campaign for
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28 July 2008

Call for information investment in PBC groups

The NHS Alliance is calling for practice-based commissioning groups to be given the money to fund their own information needs.
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17 July 2008

GPs shape the future of health IT

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs,
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15 July 2008

Swindells says Darzi 50 per cent about information

Matthew Swindells has said that the NHS Informatics Review sets an unprecedented information challenge.
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4 July 2008

New information tools promised for commissioning

The Department of Health is to develop new technology systems over the next year, to help commissioners achieve the goals
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3 July 2008

Access to NHS care records may be widened

The Department of Health is to review extending access to the NHS Care Records Service to non-NHS staff, and bodies
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