GPs warned on honesty of claims
GP practices have been warned to take care when making claims under the Quality and Outcomes Framework given the current row over MPs’ expenses claims. The Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland said a GP was struck off the General Medical Council’s register in January for falsifying QoF claims and warned other GPs to be scrupulously […]
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Slovenia rolls out e-health card
The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across the country.
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NHS radiology kit rolled-out
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has sent trusts in England a new radiology kit to help departments improve their booking processes and reduce waiting times. Transforming your Radiology Services Kit: Focus on Booking Processes, intends to reduce the long waiting times often caused by a bottleneck in patient pathways as part of the […]
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Darzi quality indicators published
The Department of Health and the NHS Information Centre have published a list of 232 indicators of high quality care, intended to help clinicians drive up the quality of care they deliver to patients. The publication of the 200 indicators forms the first step in developing measures that will enable clinicians to easily measure the quality of […]
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Simulation improves falls care
A primary care trust has won an award for its use of a computer-based simulation programme to forecast the impact of a proposed new care pathway. East Riding PCT used the Scenario Generator tool to look at its plan for a new pathway to reduce the chances and numbers of falls and to cut attendance […]
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CfH to pilot clinical dashboards
NHS Connecting for Health has awarded a contract to System C to design, develop and pilot Clinical Intelligence Systems, or clinical dashboards, over the next nine months.
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Capita wins quality mark contract
The Department of Health has appointed Capita to manage the Information Standard accreditation scheme that is due to be launched later this summer. The contract is the second big information win for Capita in the past year. Last July, the outsourcing specialist won the contract to run NHS Choices for three years, taking over from […]
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IT should make me more money
In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul argues that general practice needs some more business-based IT solutions.
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Confed calls for community IT
Community services lag behind much of the rest of the NHS on IT investment, according to the NHS Confederation’s Primary Care Trust Network. The PCT Network, which represents the majority of PCTs in England, is calling for lack of IT investment to be corrected in a report published this week. The report, The Future for […]
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IB-Salut awards EHR contract
The health service of the Balearic Islands has awarded the tender for the development of an electronic health record to Fujistu, in conjunction with its partners Oracle and Orion Health. IB-Salut signed the contract worth €6.7m, saying it wanted to transform its existing model of dispersed health information into an integrated EHR. The project known […]
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