CSC to supply SystmOne under GPSoC
Computer Sciences Corporation has signed a framework agreement with NHS Connecting for Health to supply TPP’s SystmOne under the GP Systems of Choice initiative. SystmOne has also been approved as meeting CfH’s standards for a hosted solution. The signing of the framework agreement with CfH marks the end of a long period of negotiations with CSC […]
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Cost of access to old records agreed
NHS Connecting for Health has set out the options GP practices have to access their old records if they switch to a different IT system. The GP Systems of Choice team has agreed details of how each IT supplier will provide practices with access to their audit trail and the costs of doing so. CfH says […]
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GPs should be paid for hosted systems
GP practices using a hosted system that has yet to receive NHS Connecting for Health approval should still be awarded the IT incentive payment for using a hosted system, CfH has said. The IT agency has told primary care trusts to use their discretion and pay component four of the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES) to practices using […]
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Half of PCT-practice agreements signed
More than 50% of GP practices have now signed their PCT-practice agreement for GP Systems of Choice. Just under 4,000 practices had signed up to the agreement by 27 February, according to figures published by NHS Connecting for Health, leaving 3,286 practices still to do so. The figures show that 37 PCTs have signed agreements […]
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Vision 3 first GPSoC level 4 system
INPS has announced that its Vision clinical system has become the first GP system to achieve GP Systems of Choice accreditation for its hosted services. NHS Connecting for Health has granted Vision 3 level 4 compliance under GPSoC, which means the system has met its standards for hosted services. Primary care trusts can also claim […]
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One third of PCT-practice agreements signed
Just over a third of primary care trust-practice agreements for the GP Systems of Choice framework had been signed by the end of the year, according to NHS Connecting for Health. Latest figures published by the agency show that 2,514 agreements had been signed by 19 December out of a possible 7,519. CfH had originally hoped that […]
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That was the year in primary care IT
TPP reaches 10m patients and plans more
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced that more than ten million patients in England and Wales now have records held on its clinical computer system, SystmOne. The system, supplied to three national programme regions by local service provider CSC as an interim GP solution ahead of the arrival of Lorenzo, holds the records for […]
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Vision 4 looks further off
Delivery of the new clinical system Vision 4 from GP system supplier INPS could be moved back to 2011. The latest update on suppliers’ planned release dates for NHS Connecting for Health applications shows that Vision 4 is being replanned; although the company’s hosted version of its Vision 3 system has become the first hosted […]
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Just 25 per cent sign PCT-practice agreement
Fewer than one in four eligible GP practices have signed their PCT-practice agreement under GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC). Figures published this week by NHS Connecting for Health show that 1,614 practices out of 7,300 practices with a GPSoC deal in England have signed the agreements, nearly six months after they were originally due to […]
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