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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Initial sites wanted for the next phase of EPS
NHS Connecting for Health is recruiting primary care trusts to be initial implementation sites for release two of the electronic prescription service. Release two will deliver digital signatures for prescriptions, enable patients to nominate pharmacies, improve electronic repeat dispensing processes and enable GPs to cancel a prescription at any time up until the medication is […]
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Funding for data accreditation must be a priority
Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate heard after a GP raised problems about funding for the initiative. Dr Mary Hawking, a GP in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, told the conference that Bedfordshire had 93 practices but no facilitators from the data […]
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Read code will trigger care record opt-out
The Read code 93C3 will be used as one way of identifying patients who do not wish to have a summary care record written to the NHS Spine, the Summary Care Record Advisory Group has agreed. The group, which met for the first time last week, accepted a recommendation from Connecting for Health (CfH) that […]
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Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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PRIMIS CHART e-audit tool launched
An e-audit tool to allow GP practices to assess the quality of their data as part of the IM&T directed enhanced service has been launched by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH). GP practices are being encouraged to download the CHART e-audit tool to benchmark themselves against others and use the results to help focus on […]
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Wales to tender for GP software at national standards
Wales is to go out to tender for GP software suppliers to comply with a national framework contract in a move mirroring developments in England. A new strategy devised by the Wales Primary Care IM&T programme, GP Clinical Systems: A Strategic Framework, states that national minimum specification standards will also be developed which suppliers will be […]
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Hosted INPS and iSoft accredited by CfH
Two hosted GP practice systems have so far received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health. INPS Vision 3 Enterprise edition, as offered by the Capital Care Alliance in the London cluster and iSoft Synergy Enterprise, as offered by Accenture in the North Eastern and Eastern clusters, have met CfH’s requirements for hosted systems under the […]
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IM+T DES participation check advised
Primary care trusts are being advised to contact all GP practices to check if they intend to take part in the IM+T directed enhanced service as an information portal for the DES is launched. Primis+, the primary care data quality service, is hosting the portal as part of its commission from NHS Connecting for Health […]
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