NHS Surrey drops coaching service
A primary care trust has dropped its health coaching service from private contractor Bupa Health Dialog, as the row over the consent model for telephone support services continues.
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What is in store for QoF?
The GP in charge of recommending changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework tells Sarah Bruce what is on the agenda.
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Audit Scotland flags concerns with ECR
Scotland’s national audit body has raised concerns about the scope and quality of the country’s Emergency Care Summary. In its latest report on medicines management, Audit Scotland says that nine out of ten health boards have now implemented the ECR in Accident and Emergency departments. The ECR contains information from GP records and is intended to help staff […]
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EMIS Web to receive CfH approval by autumn
EMIS Web, the next generation clinical system from GP system supplier EMIS, is likely to get NHS Connecting for Health assurance approval by September or October.
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CfH on the brink of new deals with CSC and BT
NHS Connecting for Health is on the brink of signing new renegotiated deals with its two main remaining contractors, Computer Sciences Corporation and BT.
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Team of GPs to review QoF indicators
A team of GP academics and the Royal College of General Practitioners have been appointed to lead an overhaul of Quality and Outcomes Framework indicators. The Department of Health announced in March that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence was to take over the development of the QoF indicators, despite objections from GPs […]
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Damp Holding AG awards contract to iSoft
iSoft has won a two-year €1.65m contract with German private healthcare group Damp Holding AG to provide an integrated radiology information system and picture archiving and communications system. The enterprise wide system will connect the radiology departments at Damp Holding’s six acute care hospitals across Germany and an operating centre in Denmark. The deal, which […]
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Hospitals breaking DPA every day
The BMA says hospitals are breaking the Data Protection Act on a daily basis by sending referral correspondence to the senior partner in a practice.
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Wales publishes pathology shortlist
Six companies have been shortlisted as potential providers to develop a national pathology laboratory system for Wales. The procurement is expected to award a £7.9m national contract for pathology services to become available in 2010. The Welsh IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that Cerner, Clinisys, EMIS, iSoft, InterSystems and Technidata have been selected to […]
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Vision 3 first GPSoC level 4 system
INPS has announced that its Vision clinical system has become the first GP system to achieve GP Systems of Choice accreditation for its hosted services. NHS Connecting for Health has granted Vision 3 level 4 compliance under GPSoC, which means the system has met its standards for hosted services. Primary care trusts can also claim […]
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