Forrest answers NPfIT communication concerns
Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director (RID) for the North East cluster and acting RID for London, has promised to look into concerns about communication between local and national implementation structures. Speaking at the Health and Social Care Exchange conference in London this week, Forrest also promised to look into audience concerns that solutions to […]
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QOF publication due despite GP concerns
Publication of individual practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) is likely to go ahead in England, Wales and Northern Ireland next month despite concerns from GP representatives. The results from three of the four countries in the UK are due to appear more than two months after Scotland became the first to […]
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Practices under pressure to go with LSPs’ suppliers
Practices are continuing to face pressure to change to their local service provider’s preferred computer supplier despite an agreement three months ago that aimed to give GPs greater choice, say the leading user groups. Dr Manpreet Pujara, chairman of the National Emis User Group, is to write to all user group members following his concern […]
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Patients need reminders for online depression self-help
Websites that only offer self-help for people suffering from depression can be effective as those that also offer external clinical guidance, as long as patients are reminded to use them, according to a new study published this week. Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research studied a group of 250 people with self-diagnosed […]
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LMCs to debate no confidence motion in PCOs IT
IT funding for GPs, Choose and Book and patient confidentiality are all set to be the subject of criticism from GPs at this month’s national local medical committees’ conference. Motions to the conference include one calling for Choose and Book to be abandoned and several claiming that patient confidentiality is being put at risk by […]
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Reaction to IDX replacement
NHS IT leaders and industry experts have given a mixed reaction to the news that IDX is to be replaced as the clinical software provider for the South of England, with a widespread expectation that the change will lead to further delays in delivering new systems. The prospects of improving on the current delivery schedule, […]
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Fujitsu drops IDX for south of England
IDX Systems Corporation has today announced that it has agreed with Fujitsu Services to terminate their agreement under which IDX and British Telecom were to provide a ‘common solution’ clinical information system for the south of England under the NHS National Programme for IT. It is expected that IDX will, subject to contract agreement with […]
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Scotland publishes QoF data online
The first official practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) have appeared with the online publication of detailed QoF data for the whole of Scotland. ISD Scotland, the body responsible for health statistics in the NHS in Scotland, has published QoF results for 1025 practices. Almost all practices in Scotland took […]
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Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records
The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health records will be used. Health minister Lord Warner said that the new rules will ensure patients keep control over access to their health records in the delayed national database of patient records known as the […]
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N3 hits 6,000 installations milestone
More than 6000 GP surgeries are now connected to the NHS broadband, N3, NHS Connecting for Health has claimed; however, installation has not been without problems. In a written statement, an NHS CfH spokesman said: "As at 31 March 2005, there were 6036 commissioned sites which were supporting live traffic on that date. In addition, […]
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