Call for overhaul of Scottish IT
GP representatives in Scotland have called for full integration of GP and secondary care systems and changes to out-of-hours services in a document outlining their strategy for the future of general practice. BMA Scotland has published a ‘white paper style’ consultation document to encourage debate and discussion on a long term strategy for general practice […]
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PCTs to offer local incentive schemes for data accreditation
PCTs will need to offer local incentive schemes for data accreditation from April to support the national roll-out of the Summary Care Record, NHS Connecting for Health has said. The nationally negotiated directed enhanced service for IM&T finishes at the end of March and so far only 19% of GP practices have achieved component two which […]
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CHKS acquired by Capita for £11.6m
UK healthcare intelligence specialist CHKS has been bought by outsourcing specialist Capita Group Plc for £11.6m. CHKS specialises in providing data, coding and performance analysis services to NHS organisations. The sale was made by CHKS parent Healthcare Knowledge International, a European benchmarking performance and analysis information provider. In the financial year to 31 December 2008 […]
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Wiltshire Health signs deal with System C
System C has signed a five-year contract with a consortium of GPs in Wiltshire providing services in the community that were traditionally delivered in the acute sector. The new consortium is called Wilcare Health Ltd, and is one of the new forms of primary care organisation being promoted by the government. Wilcare is in partnership with […]
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Choose and Book contract extended
The Department of Health has signed a two year extension with Atos Healthcare for the national Choose and Book contract. The deal extends the initial £64.5m five year national contract signed with Schlumberger-Sema (since taken over by Atos Origin) in 2003, and later expanded. DH figures show that £103m had been spent on the contract by […]
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Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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IT templates for long term care plans
GPs and primary care staff will be expected to offer personalised care plans to almost 15m people living with a long term condition by 2010, according to latest guidance. An IT template, currently being piloted in Yorkshire for patients with diabetes, will be made available across England by the National Programme for IT in the […]
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Hart green-lights major Welsh projects
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has approved the outline business case for the roll out of the Individual Health Record across Wales.
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Software aids planning for pandemic flu
More than 2,000 GP practices are to receive software to help them complete pandemic flu contingency plans. The software, the iQ Pandemic Flu Planner, is produced by specialist software company iQ Medical, which has already won contracts with East of England strategic health authority and several primary care trusts to supply the planning tool to […]
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Here is the news: for 2009
The NHS will not be immune from the impact of the credit crunch and this will force policy makers and trusts to make some hard decisions about healthcare IT, according to experts interviewed by E-Health Insider. Almost all the politicians, analysts, suppliers and managers asked to look ahead to 2009 argued that the health service […]
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