Northamptonshire goes live with integrated shared care record
The Northamptonshire Care Record (NCR) is now live, joining up care records for more than 800,000 people in the county.
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Northamptonshire picks Graphnet for integrated care record
Northamptonshire has chosen Graphnet Health to provide a shared care record for people living in the county to be used to combine care information.
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PCT ends United Health contract early
NHS Northamptonshire has ended its contract for commissioning services with UnitedHealth UK a year early, the primary care trust has confirmed.
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PCT suspends TPP mobile urgent care
The second primary care trust to deploy TPP’s urgent care solution has stopped using the mobile solution because of problems with poor reception.
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CSC reach 600 SystmOne deployments
CSC have reached 600 installations of SystmOne GP system within the North, Midlands and East (NME) Programme for IT. TPP, the supplier of the SystmOne software, is working with CSC, local service provider to the NME Programme for IT, to provide an integrated primary care solution, SystmOne GP, to GPs in the cluster. TPP also supplies […]
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GPs say Choose and Book currently ‘unfit for purpose’
GP representatives have rejected calls for Choose and Book to be suspended but have branded the scheme as currently unfit for purpose. Last week’s National Local Medical Committees’ (LMCs) Conference described the e-booking system as a politically-driven initiative that was being manipulated by some hospital trusts and primary care organisations to limit choice for patients […]
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CSC delivers seven new systems in North East and East
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings, in the first two weeks of taking over responsibility as local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North East and East of England. Rotherham Primary Care Trust in South Yorkshire has gone […]
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Tunstall releases telecare guidance notes
Telecare company Tunstall has released a series of guides that aim to show how telecare devices can be used to support the National Service Framework for older people, as well as specific ideas for dementia care and learning disabilities. The guides, which are available on the Tunstall website, show examples of how devices such […]
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Technology effective in dementia home care
Assistive technology for dementia sufferers living at home can be cost-effective, increase patients’ independence and deliver support to unpaid carers, but it must be properly targeted and maintained, according to an extensive new study by the head of a Northamptonshire care project. The study ‘Safe at Home: The effectiveness of assistive technology in supporting the […]
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