GPSoC extended to March 2013
The GP Systems of Choice scheme is to be extended until the end of March 2013, while the Department of Health decides who will be responsible for IT services in the new NHS.
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Stockport Health Record shares data
GP system supplier Microtest and clinical record specialist Graphnet Health have announced the successful implementation of a data-sharing system at NHS Stockport.
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Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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Microtest supports swine flu vaccination
GP system supplier Microtest has launched a swine flu reporting service to help GP practices deliver the swine flu vaccination programme. The system supplier said users of Microtest Evolution and Practice Manager 2 were being saved the task of identifying at risk patients on their clinical systems. The company said its new service automatically checks […]
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GP2GP hits half a million transfers
More than 500,000 electronic patient records have now been transferred between GP practices using GP2GP software, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The achievement of 500,000 record transfers between practices is the latest milestone for the project which covers more than 5,000 GP practices in England. The scheme currently only involves practices using EMIS LV […]
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GP2GP milestone reached
More than 5,000 GP practices are now using GP2GP software to transfer electronic records, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The latest uptake figures for the CfH project cover practices using EMIS LV and INPS Vision 3 clinical systems, the only two GP systems currently accredited for GP2GP. CfH said that reaching 5,000 GP practices […]
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Seetec withdraws from GPSoC
Seetec has announced it is to withdraw from the GP Systems of Choice programme, effective from 30 November, and quit the primary care market. The company said it made the difficult decision following a decline in demand for its primary care system, GP Enterprise. Seetec has been a supplier to the NHS primary care market […]
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GPSoC contracts due for completion this month
Connecting for Health (CfH) is predicting that all GP practices using eligible systems under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative will have been switched to GPSoC contracts by the end of this month. The IT agency says primary care system suppliers have issued 400 “call-off” agreements to PCTs which must be signed by both […]
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PCTs to sign-up practices by default to GPSoC
Connecting for Health has told PCTs to sign up GP practices for GP Systems of Choice without getting explicit consent from practices, in a change to original implementation plans. The revised arrangements for the introduction of GPSoC mean all qualifying practices will be automatically included in a GPSoC ‘call off agreement’ unless they specifically request […]
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System user groups launch GP choice campaign
Five GP system national user groups have launched a campaign to support GPs’ right to IT system choice. The five national groups, covering the systems supplied by EMIS, InPS, iSoft, Microtest and Healthy Software, have set up a website to promote their campaign and are writing to every GP practice in England as well as […]
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