BT to end priority fault service for GPs
BT’s priority fault repair service for telephone lines at GP practices is to end on 31 March, according to NHS Connecting for Health. Peter Dyke, head of industry liaison for CfH, has written to primary care trust chief executives to notify them that BT is to discontinue its Priority Repair Fault Service (PRFS) for all except […]
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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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Action follows disputed Carson report
West Yorkshire primary care trusts have moved to back TPP in the wake of the Carson report, which criticised the out-of-hours system used by West Yorkshire Urgent Care Service. The five PCTs, together with TPP, have issued a joint statement which says that the report from Dr David Carson “did not enjoy consensus amongst the […]
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EMIS Web now expected in April
EMIS Web is expected to achieve “first of type” go-live in April, according to latest schedules from NHS Connecting for Health.
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Ten more PCTs given OK on EPS R2
Ten additional primary care trusts are to be given permission to go ahead with release two of the Electronic Prescription Service.
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NPA ‘cannot support’ EPS R2
The National Pharmacy Association has said it cannot support the roll-out of Release 2 of the Elevctronic Prescription Service. The NPA, the trade body which represent more than 6,000 community pharmacies, said it has “significant concerns” about how EPS R2 will work in community pharmacies. Ian Facer, chairman of the NPA, said the roll-out of EPS […]
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London SCR roll out complete in a year
NHS London is aiming to create Summary Care Records for 100% of the people living in the capital that want one by March 2011.
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Telehealth put on the (Google) map
More than a third of primary care trusts are involved with telehealth programmes, according to the Department of Health‘s Telecare Local Integrated Network. The telecare LIN has created a Google map for PCT telehealth, which shows which areas have begun some form of remote monitoring programme. The network says more than a third of PCTs are […]
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Swine flu line to close
The National Pandemic Flu Service is to close in a fortnight, the Department of Health has announced. The DH has decided that both the web and telephone service will be discontinued simultaneously at 1am on Thursday, 11 February. Ian Dalton, national director of NHS Flu Resilience, wrote to primary care trust and hospital chief executives […]
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RiO to be integrated with EMIS and INPS
Community and mental health system supplier CSE Healthcare Systems has announced that its RiO system is to be integrated with the primary care systems provided by EMIS and INPS.
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