Another view: of IT check-ups
GP Neil Paul has been carrying out IT health-checks for local practices; and has discovered that they need help and training to get the most out of their systems.
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Another view: returns to IT for GP federations
Neil Paul has been asked to advise an IT company on the changing face of general practice and its IT requirements. He has a lot of ideas; and wants to find a way of seeing more of them implemented faster.
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EHI interview: Paul Cundy
The Wimbledon GP and voice of IT for the BMA’s GP committee is not afraid to speak his mind. Sam Sachdeva talked to him as politicians turned their attention to the NHS, GPs, and GP tech at the party conferences.
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Hunt extends Challenge Fund by £100m
The government will extend its £50m primary care Challenge Fund by a further £100m, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
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GPSoC testing to start by Christmas
Integration testing for suppliers offering patient-facing services under the new GP Systems of Choice framework will begin before Christmas, the national clinical lead for general practice at the HSCIC has said.
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Commonwealth Fund says NHS world ‘best’
The NHS is the “best” and most efficient healthcare system in the world, partly due to its adoption of information technology, says an international study.
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TPP signs GPSoC
TPP has signed the contract for the GP Systems of Choice framework, one month after the previous contract expired.
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Plans for £230m GP IT spend released
NHS England has released its plans for how more than £230m in GP IT funding will be spent over the next year to ensure all practices across England have high-quality IT systems.
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GPSoC signed without TPP
Sixteen suppliers of GP IT systems have signed up to a new GP Systems of Choice framework, but TPP has not.
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‘Losers and winners’ for GP IT
The planned redistribution of GP IT funding across England will be “controversial” and “create losers as well as winners”, according to NHS England’s head of business systems, Richard Jefferson.
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