Fair deal on NHS broadband
This week EHI Primary Care launches Fair Deal on NHS Broadband, a campaign to get GPs the fast broadband they need.
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EMIS Web to be rolled out to 1,000 practices
GP computer supplier EMIS is to roll out the next generation of its primary care software, EMIS Web, to 1,000 practices from this month. The company says EMIS Web will provide a common clinical record that can be shared by GPs and community healthcare teams with data accessible anywhere via the web-based application. The aim […]
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500 EMIS practices to get electronic record transfers
NHS Connecting for Health is to roll out GP2GP record transfer to another 500 practices by the end of March next year. CfH has signed a contract with GP computer supplier EMIS to install its software and carry out training for 250 EMIS practices by the end of the year and a further 250 practices […]
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iSoft GP users should not feel pressed to change
GP practices that use iSoft primary care systems should not feel pressurised to move to other systems despite media coverage of the troubles suffered by the company, says the British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee (GPC). The GPC has issued advice to approximately 1500 GP practices that currently use one of iSoft’s primary care products, […]
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PHCSG update
Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month’s BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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Attachment problems thwart GP2GP transfers
Practices involved in the pilot sites for GP2GP record transfer are unable to send attachments electronically because of problems with third party document management systems, it has emerged. The NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) project, which is currently being piloted in Gateshead and the Isle of Wight, has discovered that most third party document management […]
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Scottish MPs told criticism of GPASS ‘overblown’
Criticism of the Scottish GP computer system GPASS is “overblown” and the system will serve NHS Scotland well in the future, the chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland has told Scottish MPs. Stuart Bain told the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee that there had been significant problems with GPASS which he said had been corrected […]
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GP2GP record transfer is NPfIT’s ‘most wanted’
GP2GP patient record transfer is the service that GPs would most like to see delivered by the National Programme for IT, according to a survey carried out this month. A total of 390 GPs took part in the online survey conducted by GP system supplier In Practice Systems which asked GPs to rate which NPfIT […]
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GPC backs record transfer rollout plans
GP representatives have approved plans to rollout GP2GP record transfer between practices using the same system which they say could make GP2GP widely available for some system users by the end of the year. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee last week debated whether incremental versions of GP2GP should be implemented as they become […]
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PCTs start transferring patient records by CD
Practices from two primary care trusts in Hertfordshire are about to start transferring patients records on CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. St Albans & Harpenden and Hertsmere PCTs have set up a system that allows practices to send and receive CD-ROMs holding the entire patient record including attachments. […]
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