NAO finds Choose and Book running late
Technical problems, delays in delivering upgrades and failure to engage GPs means the roll-out of Choose and Book, the national electronic appointment booking system, is behind schedule and, at best, will only offer 60-70% availability by the end of 2005. As a result the Government target to deliver patient choice by the end of the […]
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NPfIT issues rebuttal of EMIS’s claims
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has stated that it is ‘concerned’ about statements made by primary care systems supplier EMIS in a bulletin to customers this week entitled ‘The truth about EMIS and the National Programme for IT’. In the response, issued today, the programme refuted EMIS’s claims it has been frozen out of the programme, […]
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EMIS sets out its version of ‘fact and fiction’
Primary Care systems supplier EMIS has issued its customers with a briefing about its relationship with the NHS National Programme for IT, claiming it has been frozen out of the National Programme with GPs penalised if they wish to retain or move to EMIS systems. While the document, entitled ‘Fact not Fiction’, says that EMIS remains fully supportive of […]
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EMIS installed in revamped London ‘super surgery’
A new implementation of EMIS Enterprise in a ‘super surgery’ has been opened by Health Secretary John Reid as part of a partnership between the NHS Local Improvement Finance Trust and Newham PCT, east London. The software represents a new contract win for EMIS in London outside of the National Programme for IT within London. […]
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New QOF software to hide data, but not for all GPs
NPfIT has developed software that automatically anonymises GP electronic patient records for audit by primary care organisations under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), in response to concerns over confidentiality from the BMA – but it will not work with all practices. The program, QOF Assessor Toolkit, will connect with the majority of GP software, […]
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EMIS pilots GP booking through digital TV
EMIS has joined up with a South Yorkshire local government digital TV portal to allow patients to book GP appointments through interactive TV. Patients of two GP surgeries in Barnsley can access the booking service, which links up with EMIS Access, through the local government information channel e@sy Connects TV, beamed to around 10,000 households […]
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Why GPs face Hobson’s choice
An exclusive interview with Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, about how he believes that GPs are being denied the choice of systems promised to them under the GP contract.
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Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT
E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT’s chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book and what the programme really wants from its suppliers.
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EMIS users urged to protest about systems choice
The head of the EMIS National User Group (NUG) has written to all EMIS users calling on them to lobby their MPs, local Primary Care Trusts or Local Medical Committees to express their concerns about National Programme for IT (NPfIT) strategy on choice of GP systems. The letter from Dr Manpreet Pujara, chair of EMIS NUG, […]
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EMIS hits back at ‘speculation and misrepresentation’
Leading UK primary care IT supplier EMIS has issued new guidance to practices using its systems stating the firm’s long-term commitment to the NHS market and to continue to invest in developing its systems, despite not being an official supplier under the National Programme for IT. In a letter to users the company’s directors state: […]
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