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Setting records straight

Peter Short, national clinical lead GP, NHS Connecting for Health, discusses the recent Shared Record Professional Guidance.
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Region-wide SCR campaigns discussed

NHS Connecting for Health is hoping to launch region-wide public information campaigns for the Summary Care Record programme. CfH’s SCR team
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Digital maps show flu pick-up gaps

NHS emergency planners in Bristol and Avon are using advanced digital mapping to develop their swine flu pandemic response strategy.
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Personal view: Mary Hawking

Mary Hawking, a GP and critical friend of NHS IT, asks: are your records fit for sharing?
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Welsh GPs test admission risk tool

GP practices in Wales are testing a risk stratification tool which is to be made available across NHS Wales. The
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NHS Number exemptions expected

Community pharmacists and other groups of NHS workers will be made exempt from the national requirement to use the NHS
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Renegotiating LSP deals may prove costly

A senior industry analyst has compared the potential cost of renegotiating the NHS’s local service provider contracts, worth £4 billion, to
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Call for phase two CAF demonstrators

The Department of Health is looking for a wider range of IT systems to take part in demonstrator sites for
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London carnival on hold for RiO

Further implementations of the latest RiO community and mental health software in London and the South have been put on
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London PCTs pilot polysystem IT

Two London primary care trusts have been chosen to work on a pilot project looking at interoperability in polyclinics.
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