PCTs juggle choice and strategy
The GP Systems of Choice initiative will be finalised this month leaving PCTs to guide practices up the maturity model to an integrated system. Fiona Barr reports.
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PCTs plan moves to single system
Primary care trusts (PCTs) in some areas of northern England have set out plans to move all GP practices onto a single system, TPP’s SystmOne, as contracts for the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative are about to be signed. More than a dozen PCTs in the North-east have published IM&T plans which outline the […]
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CfH selects eight GPSoC suppliers
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has announced that it has selected eight GP clinical system suppliers to be awarded contracts under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative. The successful companies are local service provider CSC Computer Sciences, plus existing GP system suppliers EMIS, INPS, iSoft, Healthy Software, Microtest and Seetec and newcomer to the market, […]
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GPSoC approved by the Treasury
The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative has received Treasury approval and the primary care system suppliers are expected to sign agreements in principle by the end of this month. The agreements will mark the fruition of the GPSoC project first launched in March 2006 with the aim of delivering IT system choice for GPs […]
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No new money for GPSoC – now due July
Funding for the GP Systems of Choice initiative will come from existing Connecting for Health funds rather than new funds, with the scheme still awaiting Treasury approval. Dr Gillian Braunold, joint GP clinical lead for CfHonnecting for Health, told EHI Primary Care last week that the business case has not yet been signed off by […]
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Primary care to complete NPfIT by 2010
Primary care will have delivered most of its part of the National Programme for IT by 2010, according to Connecting for Health’s joint GP clinical lead Professor Mike Pringle. Prof Pringle told a conference organised by IT system supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) that NPfIT’s vision for primary care was on track while most of […]
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Nine companies in GP systems beauty parade
Nine companies including one newcomer to the market presented their GP IT systems to GP and primary care trust representatives as part of the GP Systems of Choice procurement process last week. The beauty parade of GP IT suppliers, including the eight existing suppliers plus one company developing a new system, took place over two […]
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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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OJEU notice signals start of GP systems procurement
Procurement for GP Systems of Choice will begin this week and be complete in three months’ time, finally delivering the right to IT system choice enshrined in the 2003 GMS contract, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. CfH has received approval from the Treasury to proceed with the procurement and a notice has today been […]
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GP Systems of Choice procurement on track but late
The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme looks likely to go ahead – although procurement will not be complete by 1 April as originally planned. A spokesperson for CfH told EHI Primary Care that the GPSoC business case was approved by the Department of Health in December 2006. Approval from the Treasury is still outstanding but […]
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