CfH says SCR audit trails ‘clunky’
Connecting for Health has acknowledged the audit trail facility in the first Summary Care Record pilots ‘has been clunky’, after minutes from the board of Bolton PCT expressed concerns over the functionality. Problems are reported with the time required to review audit trail alerts – created by the SCR system. In official minutes, a member of Bolton PCT’s SCR board branded […]
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Scotland to pilot new sexual health system
A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in NHS Lanarkshire, with NHS Ayrshire and Arran to follow. The system, based on AxSys Technology’s Excelicare product, will provide a common IT platform supporting specialist sexual health services for 12 NHS Boards across Scotland. A […]
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Great Yarmouth GPs use pathology e-requesting
GP practices in East Anglia are using a new order communications solution called GP RequestVision from Olympus, to request pathology tests from the nearby James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. GPs from practices in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney are using the solution to order pathology tests online via a simple tick box style form, interfaced […]
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Primary care order comms pilots announced
Two pilot sites have been named as part of the primary care order communications project, which is developing the electronic ordering of pathology tests and the reporting of test results in primary care. Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust’s pathology service will work with the Park Road Medical Centre, Wallington. In addition, the […]
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PCTs must roll-out summary records in 2008-09
PCT IM&T plans for the next financial year must include the roll-out of the Summary Care Record and the full implementation of Directly Bookable Services (DBS) for Choose and Book, according to latest guidance from the Department of Health. The guidance sets out the DH’s key expectations on IM&T for 2008/9 and the roles of […]
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Integration to improve newborn testing
One of the 2 million babies to be screened since the launch of NHSP The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) will soon be able to automatically import data from screening devices into a central database, with the aid of InterSystems’ Ensemble integration platform. The NHSP has been using the eScreener Plus (eSP) system from […]
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PRIMIS Plus awarded John Perry Prize
PRIMIS+ has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group conference for innovation and excellence in UK primary care computing. The data quality organisation received the award at the PHCSG’s annual conference last week. Sheila Teasdale, strategic director of PRIMIS+, said the award was recognition of the […]
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CfH pushing for data standard in GP contract
Connecting for Health wants data standards for GPs to be included in the nGMS contract from next year. Negotiations on revisions to the contract for 2008 have begun and CfH has asked the Department of Health and NHS Employers to include data standards into any revised agreement. GPs can currently be rewarded for meeting data […]
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IT and data quality incentive for Scottish GPs
Scottish GP practices will be able to earn an average of £3,800 over the next six months from an IT and data quality incentive scheme. The newly agreed directed enhanced service (DES) on benching information governance and data quality is to run from October to the end of March 2008. The one-off DES is being […]
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Data payments announced for Scottish pharmacists
Community pharmacists in Scotland are to receive payments for ensuring the data quality of their patient records ahead of the introduction of electronic transfer of prescriptions. The Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) has released details of phase one of the Contract Preparation Payments (CPP) which focuses on ensuring patient medication records are accurate and up-to-date. […]
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