NHS Choices selects Capita as preferred bidder
Capita has been announced as the preferred bidder to deliver NHS Choices for the next three years.
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Swindells says Darzi 50 per cent about information
Matthew Swindells has said that the NHS Informatics Review sets an unprecedented information challenge.
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DH group to look at wider NHS CRS access
The Department of Health has convened a group to look at widening access to the NHS Care Records Service including representatives from patients, nurses and pharmacists, according to Prof Michael Thick, Connecting for Health’s chief clinical officer. Prof Thick told last week’s Pharmaceutical Journal that the representative group was made up of various parties with […]
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BT on track to get southern Cerner trusts
British Telecom is on track to take over responsibility of the eight southern NHS trusts running Cerner Millennium from Fujitsu, with an agreement now likely to be reached in August. At the launch of the NHS Informatics Review last week Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, told E-Health Insider that negotiations were […]
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HealthSpace set for big expansion
HealthSpace, the government’s secure online site for patients, is to be expanded to include shared records and GP appointment booking, according to the Health Informatics Review. The review, published last week, outlines a much wider role for HealthSpace and says its consultation highlighted strong support for the HealthSpace initiative. In future HealthSpace will be accessed […]
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NHS Choices £80m contract award imminent
The Department of Health is this week expected to announce the winner of the three-year, £80m contract to run NHS Choices, the patient portal for health service. Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, said at a news conference last Thursday, 10 July, that an announcement of the NHS Choices contract was “due […]
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Heart surgery survival data published
The NHS has published data for trusts across the country on the survival rates of four different conditions. The data is published today on NHS Choices and is intended to help patients make informed choices about where they get treatnment. The data for the four common cardiac operations for each trust in England comes from […]
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NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems
NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems as a result of the NHS Informatics Review.
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NHS informatics review set to stress continuity
As part of the next stage review of the health service will see the publication of the blueprint for NHS informatics, to accompany last week’s ten year blueprint for the health service ‘High Quality Care for All: The NHS Next Stage Review’. The accompanying informatics review matters as the Darzi direction of travel is all […]
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GPs concerned by TPP data sharing system
GPs have raised concerns about TPP SystmOne’s new data sharing model which Connecting for Health says is currently being reviewed before further roll-out. SystmOne release 3 will change the way data sharing works for SystmOne users as well as introducing Role Based Access Controls. The current system means clinicians make decisions about data sharing using […]
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