Information governance

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22 August 2006

PHCSG update

Ewan Davis looks at the issues that next month's BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference will be covering.
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22 June 2006

GP system users ‘super’ group to be formed

A new user group covering all the suppliers involved in the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative is being set up by NHS
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21 March 2006

New deal on system choice for GPs

GPs will be able to choose from a wider range of IT system suppliers under the terms of a new
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14 March 2006

‘Unworkable’ NCRS user policy to be replaced

The user policy for the NHS Care Records Service that practices were required to sign up to when they received
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13 March 2006

Information sharing protocol to be devised

A single information sharing protocol for health and adult social care staff is to be developed by the end of
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3 March 2006

‘Upcoding’ a hazard as PbR pressure grows

Clinical coders are coming under pressure to ‘upcode’ to maximise income under Payment by Results, a conference heard last week.
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19 January 2006

Pharmacists to get access to EPS but not CRS

Pharmacists are to be registered for access to the NHS spine to enable electronic transmission of prescriptions but will be
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13 September 2005

‘Unworkable’ smartcard rules to be re-written

NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has been forced to scrap the rules that practices must sign up to when they
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21 July 2005

Consultation highlights concerns over NCRS ownership

Concerns over who will own the summary record on the spine and how the summary data will be validated are
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26 April 2005

FOI challenge on QoF data

The owner of an online information service is challenging a decision to hold back publication of Quality and Outcomes Framework
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