GPs urged to call up NHS Number
The NHS Number Programme has issued guidance to encourage the use of the NHS Number in general practice.
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NHS Number limitations confirmed
The National Patient Safety Agency has confirmed that community pharmacists, community nurses and other groups of NHS workers will be unable to meet the national requirement to use the NHS Number from the end of this week. The NPSA said it accepted that dentists, optometrists, community pharmacists, community nurses and ambulance staff in England would […]
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Local campaigns for NHS Number
The Department of Health and NHS Connecting for Health have announced that they will not be launching a public awareness campaign to promote the NHS Number. Despite receiving a number of queries from local organisations, the NHS Number Programme has instead laid out advice on how organisations can improve public awareness of the number and […]
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NHS Number exemptions expected
Community pharmacists and other groups of NHS workers will be made exempt from the national requirement to use the NHS Number from next month because they cannot trace or store NHS Numbers. The National Patient Safety Agency is expected to publish an official statement confirming that healthcare providers including community pharmacists, community nurses, dentists, optometrists […]
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Social care to use NHS Number
The Department of Health has announced that the NHS Number can be used in social care to link social care records as well as NHS records. The DH has issued a policy statement on use of the NHS Number in social care which confirms that it must be used for linking and identifying NHS records but […]
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Two thirds of GPs sign up for IGSoC
Around two-thirds of GP practices had signed up to NHS Connecting for Health’s information governance standards by the deadline of the end of March, according to the Department of Health. The DH said it was “extremely pleased” with the response, although CfH was unable to confirm how many of those 5,800 practices had met its standards […]
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SCR integrated into Adastra
Out-of-hours provider Adastra has delivered an integrated solution for the Summary Care Record that will make access to the SCR much quicker and easier for clinicians, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The integrated solution means out-of-hours clinicians will be able to instantly access the SCR from within Adastra, subject to confidentiality safeguards. The system […]
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Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the NHS Number. In a letter, the NHS medical director tells chief executives that implementing the NHS Number is not just about data quality or finding the number to put on a record so that data sets are complete. […]
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Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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