First GPES customer announced
The Learning Disabilities Observatory will be the first customer of the General Practice Extraction Service.
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200 practices get max QoF
Twice as many GP practices achieved maximum Quality and Outcomes Framework points this year in comparison with last year.
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EHI Live interview: Dr Mark Davies
The executive medical director of the Health and Social Care Information Centre sat down with reporter Rebecca Todd to discuss the power of information in the new NHS landscape.
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Joe’s view: of the new NHS IT arrangements
Joe McDonald contemplates the contents of his kitchen bin, and how they might be a metaphor for NHS IT in the future.
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HSCIC releases historic prescribing data
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has released the first set of retrospective GP practice-level prescribing data.
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National IT transfer plans unveiled
Staff working for NHS Connecting for Health, its strategic health authority delivery arms, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre face a long period of disruption as a ‘new’ HSCIC is formed.
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HSCIC renews concerns about data quality
A new report published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre reveals significant error rates in Payment by Results data and thousands of duplicate patient records.
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Future SROs expected to deliver
NHS Informatics wants to see “a major step change” in the way that national IT programmes are managed in the future, with senior responsible owners taking responsibility for “the delivery of benefits for the money invested.”
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NHS Informatics to be pulled in three
Responsibility for NHS IT at a national level is to be split three ways between the Department of Health, the NHS Commissioning Board, and the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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