The long Read
Read Codes are to be phased out across the NHS, and SNOMED CT must be used in primary care systems by the end of 2016 and in all IT systems by spring 2020. Thomas Meek reports.
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SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020
SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020 and primary care systems must move to the clinical terminology by the end of 2016
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NHS orgs invest in reference database
Eight NHS trusts and commissioning support units have invested in a weekly updated reference database of healthcare organisations.
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GP2GP to take in CTV3 systems
More GP systems will be accredited for GP2GP record transfer in the next two years, and these will include systems that use CTV3 coding, according to NHS Connecting for Health. In an interview to update EHI Primary Care on the progress of GP2GP since the project won the intereperability prize in last year’s E-Health Insider Awards in […]
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Hants GP wants explicit consent for SCR
A GP practice in Hampshire has recorded opt-out requests for the Summary Care Record from 20% of its patients, having pledged not to upload any records without explicit consent.
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What is in store for QoF?
The GP in charge of recommending changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework tells Sarah Bruce what is on the agenda.
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IT and data quality incentive for Scottish GPs
Scottish GP practices will be able to earn an average of £3,800 over the next six months from an IT and data quality incentive scheme. The newly agreed directed enhanced service (DES) on benching information governance and data quality is to run from October to the end of March 2008. The one-off DES is being […]
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More recalling choice but figures remain low
Almost half of patients referred to hospital by their GP can recall being offered choice, according to fully published results of the Department of Health’s (DH) National Patient Choice Survey from March 2007. However, provisional findings from the latest May 2007 survey show a fall in the recall of choice, with just 44% saying they […]
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New Read codes for hospital choice
GP practices have been advised to start using new Read codes to record choice of hospital as soon as possible in order to qualify for incentive scheme payments this year. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee has written to local medical committees to highlight the new Read codes which are expected to be used […]
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Exercising Choice
When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary care IT agenda: consent and confidentiality, Choose and Book and systems choice.
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