DH proposes GP contract changes
The government is proposing to change the GP contract to stop financial payments for organisational tasks and reward practices for giving patients access to online services.
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Enthusiastic response to ITK fund
More than 150 people have attended webinars on the new £2.2m Information Sharing Challenge Fund since it was announced on 31 August.
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40m SCRs by 2014
The Summary Care Record programme is on track to reach 40m people by early 2014, Dr Charles Gutteridge has said.
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CSC signs new deal with DH
CSC and the Department of Health have agreed a new deal that removes CSC’s exclusive rights to be the only provider of clinical IT systems in the North, Midlands and East of England.
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Joe’s view: of the new NHS IT arrangements
Joe McDonald contemplates the contents of his kitchen bin, and how they might be a metaphor for NHS IT in the future.
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CSC reaches Lorenzo “milestone”
The Department of Health appears to have signed off the deployment verification criteria for three of the early adopters of Lorenzo in the North, Midlands and East.
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National IT transfer plans unveiled
Staff working for NHS Connecting for Health, its strategic health authority delivery arms, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre face a long period of disruption as a ‘new’ HSCIC is formed.
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Future SROs expected to deliver
NHS Informatics wants to see “a major step change” in the way that national IT programmes are managed in the future, with senior responsible owners taking responsibility for “the delivery of benefits for the money invested.”
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NHS Informatics to be pulled in three
Responsibility for NHS IT at a national level is to be split three ways between the Department of Health, the NHS Commissioning Board, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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DH gives another push to Choose and Book
GPs will have to use Choose and Book or face “potentially labour intensive methods” for booking appointments under new plans outlined by the Department of Health.
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