Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the NHS Number. In a letter, the NHS medical director tells chief executives that implementing the NHS Number is not just about data quality or finding the number to put on a record so that data sets are complete. […]
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PRIMIS+ moves to NHS Information Centre
Responsibility for the data quality organisation PRIMIS+ is to move from NHS Connecting for Health to the NHS Information Centre from the beginning of next year. PRIMIS+ has a four year contract with CfH to provide data quality and information management training and support to NHS staff, but the contract will be transferred to the […]
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PRIMIS + launches data discussion board
PRIMIS+ has set up an online discussion board to raise awareness of common issues and publicise best practice amongst those using shared records. The Data Recording board, which is receiving funding from PRIMIS’ “core budget”, is open to all PRIMIS+ facilitators and anyone who is recording or using community data. Users must first register to […]
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Pringle outlines future of PRIMIS +
The strategic director of PRIMIS + has said that the organisation is looking to add value to its CHART audit software, in order to enhance benefits for primary care trusts. Speaking at the annual PRIMIS + conference in Nottingham, Professor Mike Pringle acknowledged that CHART is “clunky” and said that it is “very keen” to […]
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Slight increase in satisfaction with PBC data quality
GPs have become marginally more satisfied with the quality of the data they receive for practice-based commissioning over the past six months, although more than 35% are still dissatisfied, according to a Department of Health survey. The DH’s latest quarterly poll of 1,891 GP practices, carried out between June and August 2008, found that 16% […]
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One in ten hospital episodes miscoded
Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission. The spending watchdog’s analysis of more than 50,000 episodes of care, equating to approximately £73m of expenditure under Payment by Results, found an average error rate of 9.4% – with error rates across trusts ranging from […]
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BMA rejects call to ‘abandon’ Choose and Book
The BMA has rejected demands to abandon Choose and Book if it cannot be made fit for purpose within a year. BMA Council chairman and Yorkshire GP Dr Hamish Meldrum told the association’s annual meeting that it would be “madness” to adopt such a stance. The meeting backed a motion from Redbridge and Stratford division […]
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Data accreditation completed for 800 practices
Just over 800 GP practices have now had their data accredited as part of the directed enhanced service for IM&T. Data accreditation in preparation for uploading summary records to the spine is one of four elements in the DES which was extended for 12 months to March 2009 as part of this year’s GP contract […]
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.
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GP contract to continue IT DES payments
GP practices will be able to continue to claim for work done under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES) for another 12 months, as part of the GP contract settlement for 2008/9. The agreement to extend the DES until the end of March 2009 means practices already registered to take part in the scheme will be […]
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