NHS e-Referral Service fails to report
The NHS e-Referral Service is not producing any reports for users – nearly four months after go-live.
News
SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020
SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020 and primary care systems must move to the clinical terminology by the end of 2016
Interoperability
GP2GP allows large file transfer
Large patient record files can be sent electronically between GP practices following roll-out of the latest version of GP2GP.
Interoperability
HSCIC Digital Leaders Programme launched
Key NHS IT and clinical staff will connect with the people developing and running national systems for health and care as part of a Digital Leaders programme, being launched today.
CCIO Network
5,000 GP practices offer e-prescriptions
More than 5,000 GP practices in England offer electronic prescriptions and15 million patients have signed up for the service.
Infrastructure
Care.data delayed by two years
Final approval for the ‘pathfinder’ stage of the controversial care.data programme to go ahead will not be given until early next year.
AI and Analytics
National PACS exit on track
Trusts that still need to exit national digital imaging contracts are on track to do so by June 2016, according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Clinical Software
Spine2 cuts response times
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has marked the first anniversary of Spine 2 by releasing figures showing that it has dramatically improved response times for users.
Infrastructure
HSCIC launches cyber security service
A new NHS cyber security service – CareCERT – will be up and running by January 2016, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has announced.
Cyber Security
NME to retain most NPfIT-era systems
The end of NPfIT contracts in the North, Midlands and East looks unlikely to trigger an immediate, large-scale change in IT systems, with the HSCIC and industry contracts predicting that 60% of systems installed by CSC will be retained.
Clinical Software