NHS CB builds customer service platform
The NHS Commissioning Board is working on a new ‘customer service platform’ to take over from NHS Choices and NHS Direct.
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New group to be customer for national IT
Tim Kelsey is set to chair a new informatics services commissioning group that will become an “intelligent customer” for national IT, Tim Straughan told EHI Live 2012.
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Cheap Leeds offices for tech start-ups
The NHS Commissioning Board is looking to establish a health informatics technology cluster in Leeds where start-ups can get cheap office space.
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NHS to be ‘paperless’ by 2015 – Kelsey
The NHS should be paperless by the end of 2015, the NHS Commissioning Board national director of patients and information says.
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NHS staff should code – Kelsey
Tim Kelsey, the NHS Commissioning Board’s first national director of patients and information, is to encourage doctors and nurses and other front-line staff to learn how to program.
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EHI interview: Tim Kelsey
The NHS Commissioning Board’s first national director of patients and information is a very different kind of information leader. Jon Hoeksma talks to him.
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No big change for GP IT – Hakin
New GP IT arrangements are likely to see staff that currently provide GP IT support in primary care trusts delivering the same service as part of commissioning support units.
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CCGs ‘being bypassed’ warning issued
Clinical commissioning groups are being bypassed as an “overwhelming” number of rules and regulations about the new NHS are produced, according to a group that aims to represent CCGs.
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NHS CB outlines primary care IT split
GP Systems of Choice will continue to be funded and managed at a national level, while responsibility for hardware and networks, IT support and training will go to clinical commissioning groups.
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NHS CB to bill CSUs for hosting services
Commissioning support units are likely to have to pay the NHS Commissioning Board less than the 50p per head for hosting services that it first proposed.
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