GPs confident their data is fit to share
Four out of five GPs believe the quality of their practice data is fit for sharing, according to a survey on the future of general practice IT.
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Normal for Norfolk
A telehealth scheme involving four partners won the ‘best use of telehealth and telecare’ category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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GPs back cuts to NHS Direct and NPfIT
NHS Direct and the National Programme for IT in the NHS are both appropriate targets for cuts in the current economic climate, according to GPs. A survey of almost 900 GPs by the GP newspaper Pulse found that 59% thought the health helpline NHS Direct should take a funding cut while 52% thought the national programme […]
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EHI and doctors.net take pulse of NHS IT
NHS IT and alternatives to some or all of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have broken into the non-specialist press in recent weeks. First, papers speculated that the Conservative Party might be planning to tear up the National Programme for IT in the NHS and to let people use personal health record platforms […]
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GP raises concern about PDS security
Renewed concerns have been raised about the security of the Personal Demographics Service after a GP was able to access details of colleagues and staff without being detected. Dr Paul Golik, a GP in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, and secretary of North Staffordshire Local Medical Committee, told the GP magazine Pulse that he had accessed his own […]
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Trust loads C+B referrals manually
An NHS acute trust has been using staff to manually upload paper referrals to boost its Choose and Book performance against government targets. A report to the board of NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly says: “Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has been uploading paper referrals to the Choose and Book system to improve performance.” […]
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Vascular pods from Telehealth Solutions
Telehealth Solutions has developed a series of ‘pods’ or touch-screen devices that it says can be used to support the national vascular checks programme. The government announced last year that it would begin rolling-out free vascular screening for 40-74 year-olds in April 2009. Primary Care Trusts have been told to develop their own informatics solutions to support […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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Private GP service provider pilots telehealth
A private company that runs almost 40 NHS general practices is piloting a telehealth solution in one of its surgeries. Chilvers McCrea has set up a separate company in conjunction with telehealth providers ITAL to provide telemonitoring services to patients with long term conditions. The pilot site in Harlow, Essex has given pulse oximetry equipment […]
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Private GP providers’ technology
The private providers winning contracts to run general practices have information technology close to the top of their agendas, Fiona Barr reports.
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