NHS East of England Huddle on QIPP
NHS East of England has implemented the Huddle online collaboration application to connect ten NHS organisations.
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Thurrock Health Centre to use SCR
A walk-in centre and GP practice in Essex is to become the first NHS organisation in NHS East of England to use Summary Care Records.
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PCTs look for GP agreement to SCR
Primary care trusts are seeking agreement from GP practices to go ahead with the creation of Summary Care Records in areas where their roll-out had been suspended.
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PCTs push on with SCR despite DH stop
NHS organisations are seeking special dispensation to push ahead with the Summary Care Record, despite the Department of Health’s agreement that uploads should stop in areas where an accelerated roll-out was planned.
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BMA says SCR roll-out ‘too hasty’
The BMA has criticised the roll-out of the Summary Care Record programme, claiming patients do not have enough information and that it is too hard for them to opt out.
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East of England joins SCR roll-out
NHS East of England has started the roll-out of the Summary Care Record and says it will be available in all its primary care trusts by the end of 2010. The strategic health authority plans to follow the lead set by one of its PCTs, NHS South West Essex, which has already created SCRs for a […]
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NHS Direct drops foundation plans
NHS Direct has announced that it will not apply for foundation trust status “in the foreseeable future.” Its chief executive, Matt Tee, told E-Health Insider that it would instead pursue some of the freedoms offered to foundation trusts “without going through the Monitor process.” A strategic health authority lead commissioning arrangement will also be put […]
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