NHS Number

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22 September 2008

Help patients with NHS Number – NPSA

Primary care organisations that have stopped issuing medical record cards should reinstate the practice as a way of informing patients
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31 December 2007

Improved point of care service for students

Connecting for Health (CfH) says it is working with strategic health authorities and primary care trusts to help GP practices to
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21 December 2007

PCTs must roll-out summary records in 2008-09

PCT IM&T plans for the next financial year must include the roll-out of the Summary Care Record and the full
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20 November 2007

Integration to improve newborn testing

One of the 2 million babies to be screened since the launch of NHSP The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
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28 September 2007

Birmingham GPs say patients barred for incomplete data

GPs in Birmingham claim that four primary care trusts are rejecting patient registrations if their demographic data is incomplete, as
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19 September 2007

Wigan Council adopts NHS number as unique ID

Wigan Council has become one of the first English councils to connect health to social care services information after linking
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27 February 2007

Summary care records planned for end of 2008

Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end
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27 February 2007

NHS Wales streamlines test sample processing

GPs and nurses across Wales are to switch to using printed labels and barcodes when they send test samples to
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25 January 2007

Granger promises summary care record pilots by Easter

Connecting for Health’s chief executive, Richard Granger, has revealed that the first pilots of the national summary care record project
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19 September 2006

No mistake

Misspelt electronic records can have serious effects. Daloni Carlisle looks at the results of a three-year initiative to test the
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