CfH issues new SCR data quality guide
NHS Connecting for Health has issued new guidance on the data quality standards GP practices are expected to meet before data is uploaded to create Summary Care Records. The interim guidance follows the ending of the IM&T Directed Enhanced Service (DES) in March 2009, which had set the data quality standards practices had to meet before […]
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NHS Choices to publish Quality Accounts
The Department of Health has approved plans for healthcare providers to publish annual Quality Accounts on the NHS Choices website in an effort to increase accountability, drive quality and improve patient choice. The plans follow a three month public consultation, which finished in December, on the proposed framework for Quality Accounts, ahead of the legal […]
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DH publishes model for community IT
The Department of Health is urging community services to evaluate their information systems and set priorities for the future using its newly-published community information model. The model forms part of a report, Transforming Community Services: Improving Information for Stakeholders, produced by a working group of strategic health authorities and primary care trusts set up following […]
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SCR data accreditation ‘to be dropped’
NHS Connecting for Health looks likely to drop the requirement for GP practice data to be accredited before Summary Care Records are created and uploaded to the Spine. Practices are currently required to have completed component two of the IM&T directed enhanced service on data accreditation or a local equivalent before data is uploaded. However, Dr […]
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Interview: Mary Hawking
Fiona Barr talks to veteran healthcare IT campaigner Dr Mary Hawking, who recently won the John Perry award.
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Mary Hawking honoured
Mary Hawking (right) receiving the 2009 John Perry Prize from Joan Perry Dr Mary Hawking, a GP in Bedfordshire and a long-standing healthcare IT campaigner, has been awarded the 2009 John Perry Prize by the British Computer Society’s Primary Health Care Specialist Group. The prize was given to Dr Hawking for behind the scenes work that […]
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Data quality held to quality account
The Department of Health wants NHS organisations to publish details of their data quality as part of its plans for Quality Accounts, which will be mandatory for hospitals from next year and for primary care from 2011. A public consultation on the proposed framework for Quality Accounts has been launched by the DH ahead of […]
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Informatica helps Wales track swine flu
NHS Wales is using software developed by Informatica Systems to monitor pandemic flu on a daily basis. The Primary Care Informatics Programme’s Data Quality Service is being used to track the spread of swine flu and other potential pandemics by collating data from more than 70% of GP practices across Wales. The service incorporates a […]
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North Mersey looks beyond iPM
North Mersey Health Informatics Service is preparing to deploy Lorenzo Regional Care next year, having successfully rolled out one of its predecessors across two primary care trusts. The HIS has been delivering iSoft’s iPM – which is known locally as Lorenzo – to services run by Liverpool Primary Care Trust and NHS Sefton. The phased […]
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