GP2GP reaches 500th mark ahead of time
Connecting for Health has implemented GP2GP at 500 practices, almost a month before the planned deadline of 31 March 2007. The 500th practice received the version 1.0 system on 22 February, five weeks ahead of schedule, meeting the target set last September. GP2GP record transfers between practices caused by patients moving or switching practice. The […]
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Exercising Choice
When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary care IT agenda: consent and confidentiality, Choose and Book and systems choice.
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Readv3 systems non-compliant with GP2GP ‘for some time’
Three GP IT systems used by more than 600 GP practices in England are incompatible with current activity in the Connecting for Health’s GP2GP record transfer project because of the version of Read codes used in the systems. TPP, Healthy Software and Seetec Enterprise all use Read code version 3 compared to version 2 used by […]
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Good progress towards GP2GP
Read code will trigger care record opt-out
The Read code 93C3 will be used as one way of identifying patients who do not wish to have a summary care record written to the NHS Spine, the Summary Care Record Advisory Group has agreed. The group, which met for the first time last week, accepted a recommendation from Connecting for Health (CfH) that […]
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CD record transfers opposed by Hampshire PCT
A primary care trust has recommended that GP practices do not transfer patient records using a CD citing concerns over the IT literacy of practices and the security of patient information. The CD transfer system, developed in Hertfordshire and backed by NHS Connecting for Health as an interim measure, enables practices to send a CD-ROM […]
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Practices to test record transfers between systems
GP practices are likely to start testing of GP2GP record transfers between practices with different systems next month. Practices using INPS’s Vision system in Croydon have already installed version 1.1 of the GP2GP software and three EMIS practices in Croydon are in the process of receiving the update. Sean Riddell, managing director of EMIS, told […]
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Bury PCT starts using GP2GP to transfer records
Bury PCT has become the latest PCT using INPS Vision to begin using electronic GP2GP record transfers of patient records. The system was deployed simultaneously across all 33 practices in the PCT last last month. All use Vision and have Choose and Book and release one of the Electronic Prescription Service installed. Bury PCT had […]
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RCGP urges ‘universal and rapid’ SNOMED deployment
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has written to NHS IT director general Richard Granger calling for the "universal and rapid" deployment of the clinical coding system SNOMED. The letter from the RCGP’s Health informatics Standing Group is understood to have been prompted by concerns about the pace of change towards SNOMED CT by […]
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EMIS offers GP record transfer by CD
All EMIS LV practices in England can now transfer full patient records between practices using a CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. The project was started by St Albans & Harpenden, and Hertsmere PCTs, (now merged into part of West Herts PCT) which set up a system last March […]
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