INPS surgeries to use iPlato text messaging
Primary care software supplier INPS has announced that surgeries across England that use its software will also have the opportunity to use iPlato’s patient alert text messaging system, thanks to a strategic alliance between the two companies. The Vision SMS system, which incorporates iPlato’s patient care text messaging system into INPS’s general practice software, is to be used by a number […]
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SHA sets up data warehouse for PBC
A strategic health authority has set up online access to patient data for its 15 primary care trusts and 330 GP practices to support practice-based commissioning. NHS South Central SHA’s new service, the Thames Valley Data Warehouse, will hold data on more than 2.2 million patients taken from the SHA’s existing databases and from September […]
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Survey says practices not receiving activity data for PBC
Almost 70% of GP practices have received only partial or no activity data from their primary care trust to take on practice-based commissioning, according to a survey conducted by the Improvement Foundation. The survey of 395 practices across England found that 11 per cent of practices have received no activity data from their PCT and […]
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Tower Hamlets PCT cuts down PBC reporting times
Data mining software has cut down the length of time that one PCT needs to prepare PBC reports from two days to under an hour. Tower Hamlets PCT installed the Monarch system in order to go through their reports and pull out the necessary data from 38 practices, such as outpatient appointments, non-elective admissions […]
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Dr Foster Intelligence free trial offered to GPs
Health information firm Dr Foster Intelligence is making hospital referral data in its practice based commissioning tool available free to GPs for a 30 day trial period. The company’s online practice based commissioning software provides GPs with activity data and financial statements for their practices plus benchmarking data for other practices in the same primary […]
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Two new PCT reporting tools launched
Two new web-based reporting tools to help primary care trusts and GPs deliver practice–based commissioning have been launched. Medical data firm Dr Foster Intelligence says its PBC tool will provide GPs with activity and financial statements as well as benchmarking data with information for all trusts in England and many independent sector treatment centres. Another PBC […]
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GP2GP record transfer is NPfIT’s ‘most wanted’
GP2GP patient record transfer is the service that GPs would most like to see delivered by the National Programme for IT, according to a survey carried out this month. A total of 390 GPs took part in the online survey conducted by GP system supplier In Practice Systems which asked GPs to rate which NPfIT […]
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PCT mergers look set to disrupt IT plans
IT departments of NHS organisations are beginning to feel the impact of plans to shake-up the structure of the health service which will see PCTs merge and no longer be service provider organisations. Some heads of department say lastweek’s announcement of the plans has already cast doubt on some implementation plans while others report fears […]
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National data quality review called for
The NHS needs a national overview of data quality and coding integrity as the Payment by Results regime gathers pace, the NHS Confederation is set to argue. A discussion paper to be sent out to members of the confederation – which represents 92 per cent of NHS organisations in the UK – argues that the […]
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