Ex-Kable MD joins E-Health Media board
Mark Hudson, former managing director of Kable Ltd, has joined the board of E-Health Media Ltd, publishers of E-Health Insider, the UK’s leading source of news on healthcare information technology.
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NHS IT minister says SCR ‘will continue’
The government has said that uploading of Summary Care Records will continue to take place, in its first public statement on the future of the SCR since gaining office.
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PCTs look for GP agreement to SCR
Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in areas where their roll-out had been suspended.
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PCTs push on with SCR despite DH stop
NHS organisations are seeking special dispensation to push ahead with the Summary Care Record, despite the Department of Health’s agreement that uploads should stop in areas where an accelerated roll-out was planned.
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Just 752 patients view their SCR online
Just 752 patients out of the more than 1.2m who have a Summary Care Record have opted to view their SCR on HealthSpace.
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Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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NHS Direct plans to make £20m savings
NHS Direct has announced that it plans to cut its costs by £20m in the next financial year by improving call centre efficiency, making savings on IT and changing its staffing structure. The cuts sit alongside a longer term plan to reduce management and business costs by 30%, saving £8m, by 31 March 2011. The […]
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Two-fifths of PCTs begin SCR campaigns
The summary care record roll out More than 40% of primary care trusts have started their Public Information Programmes for the Summary Care Record and more are expected to follow soon, according to NHS Connecting for Health. The Department of Health’s IT agency told EHI Primary Care that 65 PCTs have started PIPs and that the […]
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London SCR roll out complete in a year
NHS London is aiming to create Summary Care Records for 100% of the people living in the capital that want one by March 2011.
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RiO to be integrated with EMIS and INPS
Community and mental health system supplier CSE Healthcare Systems has announced that its RiO system is to be integrated with the primary care systems provided by EMIS and INPS.
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