Birmingham Portal drives info sharing
Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership has selected Dotted Eyes’ Health Portal to enable information sharing with GPs and between NHS and local authority organisations. The partnership, an alliance between the city’s primary care trusts and council to tackle health inequalities and improve health outcomes, said the portal would help it to meet the demands of […]
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Dixon urges consortia to work quickly
The NHS Alliance is advising GP commissioners and primary care trusts to get consortia up and running as soon as possible. Dr Mike Dixon, chair of the NHS Alliance, whose membership includes PCT managers and clinicians, said time was of the essence. He told a meeting of 180 GPs at a practice-based commissioning event: “As […]
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Information Centre wins in ALB review
The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that it will be put on a firmer statutory footing and given new responsibilities.
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GP consortia to start work this year
The Department of Health has spelled out its plans for the future of commissioning in a consultation that gives the NHS Commissioning Board a role in setting data and IT standards while predicting that a market will develop in commissioning support.
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Expert view: Tim Benson
The Department of Health is consulting on a new outcomes framework for the NHS. What will its impact be?
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Feeling liberated?
One week on from the publication of the coalition government’s NHS white paper, ‘Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS’, Sarah Bruce asks NHS staff with a particular interest in IT for their reaction.
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Goals replace targets in DH paper
The Department of Health has set out its plans to scrap centrally, set performance managed targets – and to hold the NHS to account using ‘national outcome goals’.
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Consortia will look to private sector IT
GP consortia are likely to look to the independent sector to meet their IT and information needs for commissioning, according to the NHS Alliance.
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Insider view: Fiona Barr
EMIS ‘well placed’ for white paper world
Healthcare IT supplier EMIS has announced that it is trading is in line with expectations, with a £300,000 rise in turnover for the first six months of the year to £29.02m. The company said it continues to focus on its next generation system EMIS Web and that ‘first of type’ testing was on track for […]
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