Times Health Commission presents 10-point plan with digital at the top
A comprehensive report from the Times Health Commission on Monday identified a 10-point plan for health that highlights a key role for digital technologies.
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Out-of-area GP rules should be ‘withdrawn’, BMA says
The regulations ‘are not in line’ with wider NHS England policy and allow digital providers to prioritise healthy patients, the association said.
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NHSE consultation on digital GPs could stifle Babylon’s expansion
The proposed changes would address funding inequalities between local GP practices and digital providers and address high patient churn in digital services.
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GP at Hand’s primary care network application to be ‘considered’
Hammersmith and Fulham CCG has said it would “consider” an application from Babylon’s GP at Hand to become its own primary care network.
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Another View: On whether a GP-contract-driven change is going to come
Our GP columnist has been reviewing the 2019/20 GP contract document. And while there’s lots of talk of digital, Neil Paul is not quite convinced it’s enough to constitute a real change.
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New GP contract ‘penalises’ income for digital providers, Babylon claims
The new contract, published last week, sets out changes to the rurality index payment and London adjustment payment due to come into effect from April 2019.
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Patient record access: March target likely to be met
All GPs will be able to offer patients online access to their ‘detailed coded record’ by the end of the month, GP IT system suppliers have said.
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22 point plan for NHS digital adoption
Exclusive: A high-level report on NHS IT by management consultants McKinsey makes 22 recommendations to drive the adoption of technology and achieve the anticipated productivity gains; many of which have already become policy.
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Another view
Neil Paul has been thinking about the future of GP practice. It needs to change, he argues, and IT needs to help it to do that.
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GP contract trims IT commitments
GPs will have to update the Summary Care Record daily and give patients online access to their SCR information under the new General Medical Services contract for England.
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